Are any of you attending a college that is in a hospital?

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Are any of you attending a college that is in a hospital?

One of the major hospitals near me has their own college that only has degrees for Nursing and Radiology. It seems like a pretty decent school and it's one of 4 schools in my immediate area that has a nursing program, but only 1 of 2 that has a bachelor's degree in nursing.

What is your opinion on schools like that?

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

As long as the school you are considering is a state board approved program, it really doesn't matter whether the school is in a college or a hospital. Long ago, most nursing and radiology programs were primarily hospital centered. As things progressed, however, the schools tended to be moved into colleges and universities. I believe that one of the reasons this happened was because of funding (the cost of training the nurse/radiation technician). Colleges are just more efficient and have more money available to them. It doesn't make hospital-based programs inferior in any way. Many of these hospital schools have a very distinguished and proud history. What has happened is that some hospital-based programs struck deals with local colleges to become part of the school curriculum because they had superior nurses training. You don't want to mess with what ain't broke.

When you attend a nursing school within a college or university, or vice versa, you are learning to become a nurse so you can take the state-licensing exam to practice as a nurse. This is not the same as earning a degree although the nursing classes will count toward getting your degree. For a degree, you are fulfilling the school's requirements to earn a specific rank of education. These are two different things. For some time now, organizations like the American Association of Nursing and the National League for Nursing have been promoting the idea that professional nurses should also have college degrees, preferably a BSN. So, more and more college degrees along with nurses training have been more desired. Hospital based nursing programs continue to exist because they meet the qualifications of the state boards of nursing to train nurses and because some people do not care to get a college degree along with their nurses training. You earn a diploma rather than a degree when you graduate from a hospital-based nursing program that is not affiliated with any college or college degree.

You can get a list of the approved nursing schools on your state board of nursing site. You should be able to find a list of approved radiology programs in your state by finding out which state agency licenses radiology technicians and asking for a list of approved schools. I think the American Association of Radiology Technologists also has a list of approved schools of radiology on it's website, but I'm not sure about that.

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As long as the school you are considering is a state board approved program, it really doesn't matter whether the school is in a college or a hospital. Long ago, most nursing and radiology programs were primarily hospital centered. As things progressed, however, the schools tended to be moved into colleges and universities. I believe that one of the reasons this happened was because of funding (the cost of training the nurse/radiation technician). Colleges are just more efficient and have more money available to them. It doesn't make hospital-based programs inferior in any way. Many of these hospital schools have a very distinguished and proud history. What has happened is that some hospital-based programs struck deals with local colleges to become part of the school curriculum because they had superior nurses training. You don't want to mess with what ain't broke.

When you attend a nursing school within a college or university, or vice versa, you are learning to become a nurse so you can take the state-licensing exam to practice as a nurse. This is not the same as earning a degree although the nursing classes will count toward getting your degree. For a degree, you are fulfilling the school's requirements to earn a specific rank of education. These are two different things. For some time now, organizations like the American Association of Nursing and the National League for Nursing have been promoting the idea that professional nurses should also have college degrees, preferably a BSN. So, more and more college degrees along with nurses training have been more desired. Hospital based nursing programs continue to exist because they meet the qualifications of the state boards of nursing to train nurses and because some people do not care to get a college degree along with their nurses training. You earn a diploma rather than a degree when you graduate from a hospital-based nursing program that is not affiliated with any college or college degree.

You can get a list of the approved nursing schools on your state board of nursing site. You should be able to find a list of approved radiology programs in your state by finding out which state agency licenses radiology technicians and asking for a list of approved schools. I think the American Association of Radiology Technologists also has a list of approved schools of radiology on it's website, but I'm not sure about that.

:yeah that:

I am attending a school that is "owned" by a hospital. It is a block down the street from the main hospital. It started out as just a nursing school, but now offers Rad Tech, Surg Tech, Nuc Med, Sonography, Cardiology invasive, Clincial Science, EMT, general ed classes as well as CNA classes.

They actually were just accredited as a real college (they were just an "institure for health education") for the nursing program, as little as 2 years ago they were still a diploma program, now you graduate with an ADN and all the other classes have been made into Associates degree classes (except for EMT and CNA)

I guess what Im trying to say is, as long as they are accrediated and you are happy with the program, go for it. Maybe this means youll be able to get a job easier after graduation..

Good Luck...

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Thank you for such a detailed response! The hospital I was thinking of applying to is accredited and recognized by the AAN and NAN. There program is almost identical to the one at the Univeristy I currently go to. I'm gonna go down there tonight and see about speaking with an advisor. Thank you again for your help. :balloons:

As long as the school you are considering is a state board approved program, it really doesn't matter whether the school is in a college or a hospital. Long ago, most nursing and radiology programs were primarily hospital centered. As things progressed, however, the schools tended to be moved into colleges and universities. I believe that one of the reasons this happened was because of funding (the cost of training the nurse/radiation technician). Colleges are just more efficient and have more money available to them. It doesn't make hospital-based programs inferior in any way. Many of these hospital schools have a very distinguished and proud history. What has happened is that some hospital-based programs struck deals with local colleges to become part of the school curriculum because they had superior nurses training. You don't want to mess with what ain't broke.

When you attend a nursing school within a college or university, or vice versa, you are learning to become a nurse so you can take the state-licensing exam to practice as a nurse. This is not the same as earning a degree although the nursing classes will count toward getting your degree. For a degree, you are fulfilling the school's requirements to earn a specific rank of education. These are two different things. For some time now, organizations like the American Association of Nursing and the National League for Nursing have been promoting the idea that professional nurses should also have college degrees, preferably a BSN. So, more and more college degrees along with nurses training have been more desired. Hospital based nursing programs continue to exist because they meet the qualifications of the state boards of nursing to train nurses and because some people do not care to get a college degree along with their nurses training. You earn a diploma rather than a degree when you graduate from a hospital-based nursing program that is not affiliated with any college or college degree.

You can get a list of the approved nursing schools on your state board of nursing site. You should be able to find a list of approved radiology programs in your state by finding out which state agency licenses radiology technicians and asking for a list of approved schools. I think the American Association of Radiology Technologists also has a list of approved schools of radiology on it's website, but I'm not sure about that.

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My school isn't IN the hospital, but our building is on the main campus. I think it is great because we have guaranteed clinical sites. We dont have to compete with other schools. There are other schools that use the hospital as well, though I think they have to split their time between the hospital and nursing homes.

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I am currently attending a hospital based ADN program... about to finish in Dec actually. I am very glad I went with the hospital based program as opposed to the University. The program is centered around what happens on a daily basis in the hospital. Ours is a small Catholic college with only about 300 students which makes it very personalized. The faculty and administration really make an effort to know all students names and faces. And... the science classes that I took were totally based on how we as nurses were going to apply them. If it didn't pertain to nursing we didn't need to learn it. I would recommend my college or one like it to anyone because of the family atmosphere and support system.

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