Anyone attended City Tech, Hunter, St. Francis or Medgar Evers for the RN-BSN??

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Hey Gals & Guys!

I'm looking for a nursing program in the NYC area that can offer me the RN-BSN route with the least resistance. I'm currently working full time at a Manhattan Hospital and would like to get my BSN with a good GPA to then apply to a good MSN program. In getting my ADN, I found that it was very challenging and while I got a good GPA (3.6) it was not under the stress of working full time as a RN within a busy public (HHC) hospital. Taking that into consideration, which of the following schools offer a good education while not trying to bake your brain?

City Tech

Medgar Evers

St. Francis

Hunter

For those that have attended any of these schools and, in particular, entered their RN-BSN program, please give us your opinions about the particulars of the program (Likes/Dislikes, Complexity, How much you felt was attained by way of true learning and not just fact crunching the night before exams and just your overall view)

Thanks!

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Anyone?? If you have some info, feel free to PM me as well!

Thanks in advance,

:nurse:

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BUMP for response potential..

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bump-- Does anyone have any info about city techs or medgar evers bsn??

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I'm looking for information on City Tech as well. Hope you get an answer to your question.

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I'm a City Tech student, but I'm going for my associates first. As far as I know, the BSN program at City Tech is relatively new and it's reserved for students who already have their licenses and are just crossing the bridge from ASN to BSN. They do not accept students that are just starting out.

They have partially online classes for both the BSN and ASN programs, which is also a new feature. I'm taking one of them right now and i'm pleased with it. It saves me a lot of time commuting to and from school.

I'm pleased with the program. The staff is helpful and I think everything else is based on the individual sudent's commitment. From what I've heard, our program is similar to Kingsboro and probably other CUNY schools that offer ASNs.

I could go on and on about City Tech nursing, but you're interested in BSNs, so i don't think I can help you.

Good luck though!

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Specializes in Med-Surg /Oncology.

I attend City Tech. I will graduate hopefully in Fall 2010. I would not attend this school again if I knew then what I knew now. The program may be one day a week but it is not designed for the working nurse. There are clinicals for Leadership, Urban and Community, which I have to always use my other time (vacation etc) to request off. There is no Masters articulation, nor credits earned towards the Masters. I have had to dedicate much time to "busy work" over the past two years for the nursing classes that havent enhanced me professionally, in addidtion to taking my pre-reqs. I got my a.a.s from tech and its much an extension of that program. I would have paid the $$$ and went to Pace, elsewhere. It is very stressful in terms of all of the clinicals and busy work, in addition to the real course needed for my other non nursing courses. Hubby and I wanted to add another child to the family, but we will have to wait until I get this out the way.:nono:

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Specializes in 1 day..International Public Health FNP.
I attend City Tech. I will graduate hopefully in Fall 2010. I would not attend this school again if I knew then what I knew now. The program may be one day a week but it is not designed for the working nurse. There are clinicals for Leadership, Urban and Community, which I have to always use my other time (vacation etc) to request off. There is no Masters articulation, nor credits earned towards the Masters. I have had to dedicate much time to "busy work" over the past two years for the nursing classes that havent enhanced me professionally, in addidtion to taking my pre-reqs. I got my a.a.s from tech and its much an extension of that program. I would have paid the $$$ and went to Pace, elsewhere. It is very stressful in terms of all of the clinicals and busy work, in addition to the real course needed for my other non nursing courses. Hubby and I wanted to add another child to the family, but we will have to wait until I get this out the way.:nono:

Thanks for your input, lilac. I am also attending City Tech but for my prereq courses. I'm in the process of prepping for the upcoming apps for various nursing programs and was considering City Tech's ADN program. I was reviewing City Tech's ADN program and after wrapping up this semester I'll pretty much already be done with half of the ADN courses! So it'd be ideal if I was accepted into their program but I was curious as to why you are so unhappy with City Tech's program. How do the classes and clinicals schedule together? If I only have 8 courses to complete, do you think it'd really be possible to wrap up in 2 semesters (inc. clinical hours)? I'm planning to drop my full-time job and attend full-time. Please share your thoughts. I'd love to hear your insight. :D

TIA!

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Specializes in Med-Surg /Oncology.

Hello,

I know some people pm'ed me regarding City Tech however I dont have enough post counts to reply. To sum it all up. I have since graduated from Tech, however I still dont feel their B.S program was worth the time. I felt I had a lot of busy work as well as the expectations shifted from semester to semester. I am glad that I have completed the B.S.N but had I reearched other schools I might have gone there.

I feel courses like Community Health & Urban could be combined. They both have clinicals which are time consuming but you arent really doing much. I say if you have to go back to school go, b/c most schools have their own issues. I just wish I had this info prior to going. I cant compare other CUNY schools, but I did have a friend who took forever to finish the reqs for Hunter.

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Specializes in CNA.
Thanks for your input, lilac. I am also attending City Tech but for my prereq courses. I'm in the process of prepping for the upcoming apps for various nursing programs and was considering City Tech's ADN program. I was reviewing City Tech's ADN program and after wrapping up this semester I'll pretty much already be done with half of the ADN courses! So it'd be ideal if I was accepted into their program but I was curious as to why you are so unhappy with City Tech's program. How do the classes and clinicals schedule together? If I only have 8 courses to complete, do you think it'd really be possible to wrap up in 2 semesters (inc. clinical hours)? I'm planning to drop my full-time job and attend full-time. Please share your thoughts. I'd love to hear your insight. :D

TIA!

hey did you every finish your pre reqs yet? when do you believe you can can apply to the program? if you haven't done so already...

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Specializes in Med-Surg /Oncology.

The clinicals are usually on Wednesay although I know this has changed a bit, b/c some were allowed to do the Lead/Mgmt clinical on an alternate day an attend another clinical. This helped them complete the clinicals faster. This was not the case when I had my clinicals though. I just feel the three clinicals were a bit much and the objectives defined in the course manuals could easily be met within half a semester at least. I worked full time throughout my time there so yes you can complete the program, its totally up to you.

Like I said, there seems to be a bit more flexibility in the clinical scheduling now than when I took my clinicals.

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Specializes in Med-Surg /Oncology.

I must also add Dato and other staff members seem to misinform the students that "according to the state they have to have a certain amount of b.s.n clinical hours". My classmate actually called the state and they negated that with a quickness, lol. Its nonsense like this that made the program a chore for me. I would do a nice online program and get it over with had I to do it again.

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