BSN at South University??? Anyone???

33762FL · May 14, 2011

"I've heard that it is hard to find job with online degree"

If you're already a nurse, getting your RN-BSN bridge online is fine. There is no problem with employment as long as you went to a real, brick & mortar ADN program with clinicals.

What do you think about colleges/universities for profit?

I think they are a huge rip off and a scam, and there is no reason to attend them when there are plenty of state university systems offering an online RN-BSN at a fraction of the price. In my previous experience working in HR, anybody with a for-profit degree had their resume trashed if we had candidate who went to real schools. If candidate "A" had a finance degree from their state university and candidate "B" had a finance degree from state university and then an MBA from University of Phoenix, "B" had their resume trashed and "A" got the interview. The rationale was that it was poor judgement on the part of "B" to pay a huge amount to an online for-profit degree mill for a relatively worthless MBA, and they would only demand a higher salary since they have "more education" IMO stay away from for-profit universities.

Nursing is a bit different. An RN-BSN is an RN-BSN from anywhere, but there is simply no reason to spend 2x or 3x the price at an online-for profit.

itk1 · May 14, 2011

My dilemma is that I'm International Nurse with 6 years of previous clinical practice but overseas, since I came to US I never worked as RN, I went to college with Refresher RN course with 2 clinical courses but my friends are telling me that Nurses with BSN degree more likely to be hired... Is it true? I'm challenging my NCLEX_RN test in June and brainstorming what to do next...

33762FL · May 15, 2011

I don't know anything about how being an international student affects getting a BSN, but once you pass NCLEX I don't see why you would be limited to "for profit" schools.