Are clinicals this bad EVERYWHERE?!?!?!

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Hello everyone. My name is Ron and I'm brand new to this board. I have a question about clinicals.

I'm in APII, only have two academic classes left. I took the NLN 1/30 and am waiting for my ranking to come in the first week of March. If I place, I start clinicals in JAN '09. If not, then I can't place again until JAN '10.

I go to a community college and the trade off is that classes are inexpensice($87/credit hour), but out of 450 students there are only 160 slots every year.

I am in Delaware and was wondering if there is anyone in the region, or in general, who can point me to a school where one doesn't have to wait so long to get into rotations.

I'm 38 and switching careers to nursing and am anxious to get the ball rolling.

Any advice would be welcomed and appreciated.

Thanks.

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Specializes in Endoscopy/MICU/SICU.

I go to Georgia State, and you apply for spring semester in october, and fall semester in march. So if you want to start in Spring '09, you'd have to apply by October 1st '08. If you want to start in Fall '08, the application deadline is March 1st '08. That's too bad that you have to wait so long in Delaware.

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I applied to two different schools and heard the same same things about hundreds of students applying and only a few would get accepted. I think this is just a scare tactic a lot of people use because I got in both schools the first time and I'm no star pupil.

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Specializes in Maternal - Child Health.

This is very typical of community college programs because they are relatively inexpensive, and because they consider acceptance of students based on many factors other than just GPA and test scores.

If you have access to a university-based Bachelor's Degree program or a hospital-based Diploma program, you will probably find that the wait lists are shorter due to higher costs and more restrictive admission policies.

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Hey up here it's usually 1200+ for around 130 seats at one school.

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