Are Academic Advisors Trustworthy

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  1. Do you trust your academic advisor?

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      Yes
    • 4
      No
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      I never question them
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      I am afraid to challenge them
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      They are always right

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I have found that Academic Advisors are not trustworthy. They don't mean what they say, and they have no intention of keeping their promises.

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
The problem is not with the website. The problem is with the Academic Advisors. They think they are gods; their way or the highway..

They give you no options. Do what they tell you to do, or jump off a high cliff with no parachute.

I am sorry you have had a negative experience. However...it isn't about the obstacles in our path that define us...it is how we navigate around them that makes us who were are.

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I am sorry you have had a negative experience. However...it isn't about the obstacles in our path that define us...it is how we navigate around them that makes us who were are.

I am sorry too, but I just don't have the patience to deal with these jerks...;)

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I find them totally unnecessary.

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The advise from the same information available to all students. Some students plan a good course of action for themselves and some don't.

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Bull...I have never had to do everything the adviser said. They can't make you take classes you don't want unless they are prerequisites to other courses.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
I am sorry too, but I just don't have the patience to deal with these jerks...;)

They are sales people. Never telling the whiole truth. Live and learn then move forward wiser.

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

Never had a problem. Mine was straight forward and knowledgeable. AA's are just that. They offer advice. Take it or leave it.

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Like anything, it depends on the adviser.

OP, if you don't want to go to school, don't go to school. If you think it's all a giant conspiracy, don't be a part of it.

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They are the sales department of colleges. Please note that colleges are businesses first and foremost.

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I think we should move on to a different thread/topic. The new topic that I recently posted is this. Do you think the demand for BSN, MSN, PhD nurses is created by the market, or by the schools and their media? The public must know about this so they will longer be deceived by the deceivers.

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OP, I've seen several of your threads this morning, and they all sound distinctly paranoid about higher education and nursing practice in general. I'm sorry you feel that you're not having a good experience, but, as the old cliche' goes, the plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence." I've been in three different nursing programs over the years, my original hospital-based diploma program, a state uni BSN completion program, and a well-known and well-respected graduate program, and, in all cases, my academic advisors were helpful, provided me with accurate information, and were clearly interested in my best interests rather than the financial considerations of the school (my BSN completion program advisor made a recommendation I would never have thought of on my own that saved me quite a bit of money (that I would have paid to the university). I have also served as an academic advisor to nursing students when I have taught in ADN and BSN programs, and financial considerations of the school had nothing to do with any advice or information I provided to students. Maybe you need to be a more careful "shopper" when it comes to education.

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OP, I've seen several of your threads this morning, and they all sound distinctly paranoid about higher education and nursing practice in general. I'm sorry you feel that you're not having a good experience, but, as the old cliche' goes, the plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence." I've been in three different nursing programs over the years, my original hospital-based diploma program, a state uni BSN completion program, and a well-known and well-respected graduate program, and, in all cases, my academic advisors were helpful, provided me with accurate information, and were clearly interested in my best interests rather than the financial considerations of the school (my BSN completion program advisor made a recommendation I would never have thought of on my own that saved me quite a bit of money (that I would have paid to the university). I have also served as an academic advisor to nursing students when I have taught in ADN and BSN programs, and financial considerations of the school had nothing to do with any advice or information I provided to students. Maybe you need to be a more careful "shopper" when it comes to education.

I visited with an advisor my first semester, and frankly after that first visit, did my own research and went in before the second semester with my own plan of study. This was for pre-requisites at the time, and I know myself well and knew what I could handle as a course load. I never had an advisor push me into anything. For me, the advisor really didn't advise, through no fault of his own....it was just that I had a realistic plan. After that semester, I didn't have to see one as I registered online for all my classes. I'm sure, like in any profession, that some are better than others, but I've never seen anyone purposefully mislead students. When I got into our nursing program, it was strictly nursing core as all the pre-reqs were out of the way. I'm meeting with an advisor tomorrow regarding my plan of study for the BSN program in which I just enrolled.

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