Chamberlain FNP Student

subee, MSN, CRNA · Mar 6

Mattheww said:

I really feel this school should be evaluated by the board of nursing....not jealous but concerned because a lot of my colleagues attend this school and they mention things like writing one paper to pass a pharmacotherapeutics class or doing an online sim for physical assessment...I mean...I've had to pass exams brick and mortar style ...had to memorizes classes for antibiotics, what microorganisms it targetted what to prescribe when patients are allergic etc...etc...I mean this fishy school is very well known among the nursing community for easy open book degrees LOL...I've had colleagues work full time over time and complete their degree in a year...I mean IDK....I really don't....my NP Program was hard!! Average was 80s on exam...and people studied their *** off and to thibk somewhere in the us people are taking exams while sipping their margaritas at home....IDK it just doesnt sit right with me...

Shame on our profession for setting such low standards. I'm still amazed that add on BSN's don't have to do any public health rotation. Blows my mind.

Mattheww · Mar 6

subee said:

Shame on our profession for setting such low standards. I'm still amazed that add on BSN's don't have to do any public health rotation. Blows my mind.

Whatever do you mean....have you seen the amount of nurses they have imported from the philippines? US students are faced with significant competition, college tuition debt, and the work force is just diluted...and now we are dealing with the crisis of these for-profit institutions printing out degrees for people who can pay for them....I really regret selecting this profession. If I can go back in time I will select another career path...but for now, I don't care how easy is it to become a prescribing clinician through these school, I refuse to ever take a course in these shady schools.

MentalKlarity, BSN, NP · Mar 7

Mattheww said:

I really feel this school should be evaluated by the board of nursing....not jealous but concerned because a lot of my colleagues attend this school and they mention things like writing one paper to pass a pharmacotherapeutics class or doing an online sim for physical assessment...I mean...I've had to pass exams brick and mortar style ...had to memorizes classes for antibiotics, what microorganisms it targetted what to prescribe when patients are allergic etc...etc...I mean this fishy school is very well known among the nursing community for easy open book degrees LOL...I've had colleagues work full time over time and complete their degree in a year...I mean IDK....I really don't....my NP Program was hard!! Average was 80s on exam...and people studied their *** off and to thibk somewhere in the us people are taking exams while sipping their margaritas at home....IDK it just doesnt sit right with me...

Nursing boards don't care but these schools absolutely turn out idiots I have encountered them and they are terrifyingly unprepared

subee, MSN, CRNA · Mar 7

Mattheww said:

Whatever do you mean....have you seen the amount of nurses they have imported from the philippines? US students are faced with significant competition, college tuition debt, and the work force is just diluted...and now we are dealing with the crisis of these for-profit institutions printing out degrees for people who can pay for them....I really regret selecting this profession. If I can go back in time I will select another career path...but for now, I don't care how easy is it to become a prescribing clinician through these school, I refuse to ever take a course in these shady schools.

It didn't use to be like this, but once the criminals figured out how to open a diploma mill, these schools became a part of the landscape. Every Filipino nurse I ever worked with (many) were BSN's (Goes back to the Ferdinant Marcos administration) so I am glad they are coming here. We nurses have to clean up our own act. Our leaders aren't keeping the standards high enough. If we are going to require nurses to have a BSN then we should provide them the same education bars as the entry to BSN programs. If we don't want to provide them with the course requirements of a four year degree, then just stop the requirement because too many students are embittered and under-educated after graduating from the mills. The ASN students are capable, IMHO, of providing good care and maybe we should just leave it there and require an advanced degree only for those who want to go into advanced practice.

Mattheww · Mar 8

subee said:

It didn't use to be like this, but once the criminals figured out how to open a diploma mill, these schools became a part of the landscape. Every Filipino nurse I ever worked with (many) were BSN's (Goes back to the Ferdinant Marcos administration) so I am glad they are coming here. We nurses have to clean up our own act. Our leaders aren't keeping the standards high enough. If we are going to require nurses to have a BSN then we should provide them the same education bars as the entry to BSN programs. If we don't want to provide them with the course requirements of a four year degree, then just stop the requirement because too many students are embittered and under-educated after graduating from the mills. The ASN students are capable, IMHO, of providing good care and maybe we should just leave it there and require an advanced degree only for those who want to go into advanced practice.

are you filipino?

Mattheww · Mar 14

Most students who attend chamberlain, grand canyon and all these shady instituitions are because they have obtained BSN asn via institutions not accredited by either acen or ccne....can sit for boards but transferring credits becomes extremely hard with other formal state or city universities....and this is the majority of the professors we have in this profession right now....those graduated with dnps msns in 8 months to a year from diploma mills with open book exams...how shameful.

subee, MSN, CRNA · Mar 14

Mattheww said:

are you filipino?

No I'm not, but worked in a hospital with a large Filipino presence. And I'm old enough to remember that Marcos supported BSN education levels for nurses because he was fanatical about only traveling with his dialysis machine and the staff to run it. NYC couldn't run their night shifts without them.