Baker, Mott, Davenport for nursing?

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I'm still undecided on whether I should go to Baker, Mott, or Davenporrt in Flint for nursing? I found Baker makes one go three years for an Associates in Nursing which I saw at many places that it should be two years. Mott has a wait list and for Davenport well I don't know much about their program. Let me know the pros and cons of all three colleges, which will give me the best education in nursing and that will be accepted at hospitals? Thanks

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Specializes in Home Health Clinician.

Baker doesn't make you go three years. Like most, the actual nursing program doesn't start until your prereqs are done. If you have any of them done at other colleges, you won't have to take them again here.

The program is 5-10 week quarters. So if I start this fall 2008, I will be done March 2010.

I have a friend who had a lot of credits from other schools and got the pre-reqs she needed done in two terms.

If I were to do this again, and not start right at Baker, I would take classes at a community college and have some of those transfer possibly to Baker. I would work on both, that way, if I could qualify by gpa at the one school, and I also got on a wait list, I could have both my options.

I am not familiar with davenport, but I would look at how much it costs.

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Hello,

I currently attend Davenport. I took all my pre-reqs there and if I could do it again, I too would take them at a community college and then apply to a nursing program. Davenport is very expensive. There were over 400 applicants for the LPN program and 60 got accepted. We start in September and end August of 09. You then have the choice to go on to RN there, or take a break and work as an LPN or go elsewhere. However we have to let them know this December what our intentions are. It's called a letter of intent. My clinicals are at the VA hospital downtown, a little leary. But they do have day clinicals and afternoon clinicals to make it accommodating. I started taking my pre-reqs in 2003 while working at Ford. It's been a long road, but I have to admit I am very nervous. I currently work as a PCA at a hospital and hope that will help. I insert and remove foley cath's, remove IV's, and many other procedures, so this may take the edge of when having a clinical coordinator behind me watching. My schedule is pretty good. I start Sept. 8 and will only be going Monday and Tuesday, then come the end of October I'll be going Monday's 10-1pm, Tuesday 10-1 lecture then 3-9 clinicals, no school on Wed, clinical on Thursday from 3-9, no school on Friday. Having two days off during the week is nice. No fighting traffic either.

Hope some of this helps out, and feel free to ask anything you are curious about.

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