Changing Nursing Schools

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Hello Fellow Nurses/Students,

I have noticed that there is little uniformity between nursing schools, which makes it hard to change nursing schools. Is it possible to find a school that will evaluate the transcript and give me credit for the nursing courses that I have taken? Has anyone been successful in doing this? 

Helen

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Specializes in Critical Care, Capacity/Bed Management.

Unfortunately you will find that most nursing courses with clinical hours will not transfer.

This is multifactorial in that every school has somewhat of a different curriculum, even if there are small difference. Schools also, do not want to vouch for clinical experience that their professors/clinicians did not observe. 

During my time in nursing school I met a handful of students who had to start from scratch when they transferred schools, this was the norm in 2010.  

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Specializes in General Hospital Medical.

Nope. I transferred from one ASN program to another ASN program and only my LPN stuff transferred, along with gen eds.

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Heck no! They want your money. If they transfer everything then you would not need to go full time for however long their program is. I tried and Microbiology would not along with a few others. I appealed the micro and they said the chapters were not all the same. Micro is micro! 80% of the curriculum must match in order to transfer. 
I spent over 3 yrs going to RN school and passed every course except the last semester which was self guided practice questions. I got booted out of school and had to quite my job at a trauma hospital and find a job at a facility. Now come to find out I applied for a multi state and I can not get one because I challenged the FL board of Nursing so I do not qualify. Totally ridiculous! Something needs to change !

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