Chamberlain dropped NLNAC Accreditation

Nursing Students Chamberlain College

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Specializes in Mother Baby RN.

Today, Chamberlain announced that they have dropped NLNAC accreditation and are solely CCNE and HLC accredited. What implications does this have for future employment and/or graduate or higher schooling that I want to pursue? Initially, I'm pretty upset at this change without any input from their students! Anyone have any knowledge or opinions on this?

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I am also worried. What is NLNAC accreditation? Does it make any difference if a school has it or not?

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

CCNE is a higher level of accreditation than NLN. They "moved up a notch, not down." No need to worry about the change.

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thanks for the info.

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Specializes in med-surg.

Going along with what Chamberlainedu said, I know a lot of the brick & mortor schools here in NJ only hold CCNE accreditation. I wouldn't be too worried about it :)

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Specializes in Med/Surg/Bariatrics.

I don't see chamberlin listed on those websites listed?

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Chamberlain on the CCNE list: CCNE Accredited Nursing Degree Programs (takes a while to load, alphabetical)

On the HLC accreditation site: The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association

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Specializes in Med/Surg/Bariatrics.

Thanks!

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Specializes in Hospice / Psych / RNAC.

It's not the employer who would be asking about your colleges accreditation, it would be the BON. Each state is different but in order to get your RN license you must have graduated from a college that has the acccreditation required by that paticuliar state's BON.

I have a BSN and a have been checking out Chamberland for their online NI master's program. It's been kind of a hard sell on their part because I am old school and have never seen myself getting an online degree.

Anyway...I have multiple years of experience and have never been asked by an employer what accreditation my college had. Come to think about it I don't even have my college's accreditation on my resume. Just make sure that the school you go to has the accreditation required by the state's BON. I would think that all the states would pretty much have the same requirements...maybe.

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Specializes in Hospice / Psych / RNAC.
It's not the employer who would be asking about your colleges accreditation, it would be the BON. Each state is different but in order to get your RN license you must have graduated from a college that has the acccreditation required by that paticuliar state's BON.

I have a BSN and a have been checking out Chamberland for their online NI master's program. It's been kind of a hard sell on their part because I am old school and have never seen myself getting an online degree.

Anyway...I have multiple years of experience and have never been asked by an employer what accreditation my college had. Come to think about it I don't even have my college's accreditation on my resume. Just make sure that the school you go to has the accreditation required by the state's BON. I would think that all the states would pretty much have the same requirements...maybe.

I do stand corrected...not all states require accreditation. In some states the school must simply be approved by the BON. I don't know which states these are but I would question that in the future if you go to a school without some type of accreditation that if you move you could possibley move to a state where the BON does require the school to have been acccredited. Careful; you don't want to go through all that schooling only to find out your school is the one that holds you back due to lack of accreditation.

Then you have too ask yourself; why aren't they accredited?

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The State is the accrediting body for all schools in their state. The can substitute a state inspection to reduce costs; but, it is the state that provides accreditation. CCNE is for colleges or schools that offer BS or higher programs. Read the state board of nursing rules. It covers education. NLNAC us a bunch of nurses who think education should be structured a certain way. Comply and you will be certified. It doesn't decide testing for NCLEX.

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Your knowledge is not very strong. State boards are the accrediting bodies for all nursing programs. They just accept the NLNAC and CNE certification in lew of their own. It is like Joint Commission; A hospital still is authorized to operate but to accept medicare and medicaid the government would have to do an inspection. But if you have joint commission they would substitute it for their review. Think before your speak.

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