Is a degree from excelsior.edu worth anything?

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

I do not understand why, time and time again, educated adults cannot carry on a conversation without resorting to insults, insinuations and name calling. The purpose of the thread was to determine if indeed Excelsior College is an offical school of nursing.

Whether or not RN's are professionals is a different topic debated on too many other threads ad nauseum. Please try to refocus on the topic at hand and debate IT, not the other posters.

Thank you. Please carry on.

Medic04

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Specializes in ICU,PCU,ER, TELE,SNIFF, STEP DOWN PCT.
I do not understand why, time and time again, educated adults cannot carry on a conversation without resorting to insults, insinuations and name calling. The purpose of the thread was to determine if indeed Excelsior College is an offical school of nursing.

Whether or not RN's are professionals is a different topic debated on too many other threads ad nauseum. Please try to refocus on the topic at hand and debate IT, not the other posters.

Thank you. Please carry on.

Don3218

1. It was a insult to be told "we" are not attending a real school, and many of us had to point out so the O.P. knows we are a real school. You just have to check with the B.O.N for your state(some have additional clinical hours and some do not after graduation) and to be told otherwise is a slap in the face of all those who go there.

There are currently 20,000 students in the Excelsior program world wide. No one I know has been turned down for work as of yet.

To be beaten down by someone who thinks they are "better and more educated then you"is not the same as holding a conversation.

For your information EXCELSIOR is a offical school of nursing.

While I am saddened by Suesquatch opinion of herself, I do not wish to be put in the category that she places herself in.

You are really something, preppygirl. I am fine with myself, and with what I do. You might ask yourself why it is so important that others consider you to be more than what you are.

I simply do not believe that being a nurse, with the exception of those advanced practitioners who diagnose and treat on their own, is on the same level as being a doctor or lawyer or any number of other things. The professionals are not unionizing, punching time clocks, fighting for help, and asking permission to act (notwithstanding standing orders).

I am very proud to call myself a nurse. But I am happy being what I am, and don't need to make it something it isn't. It's ground round, not a t-bone.

Teaching pigs to sing again, I am.

EmmaG, RN

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I simply do not believe that being a nurse, with the exception of those advanced practitioners who diagnose and treat on their own...

And even those must practice under the supervision of a doc.

PoppaD

46 Posts

Lol....

Medic04

129 Posts

Specializes in ICU,PCU,ER, TELE,SNIFF, STEP DOWN PCT.

To the O.P Excelsior is a real school. Call them and get the information you need

www.Excelsior.edu

We are Real RNs when we finish no matter where we start from. The program is hard, but you must stay focused.

We have been given many many awards and like said a total of 20,000 students world wide, many are military also. They had I believe one soldier I recall most graduating with his class in IRAQ even....I am not sure now but it was in a hot dry area) there were others.

39% of the class was military graduating this year in all fields there was a total 4,998 graduates for all fields.(Arts, science ect)

We have to buy the same Nursing books as everyone else in the States that are going to other colleges.

We have classes like others with tests, even a final exam"per say"

I have learned more through this class , in order to be sucessful in life and may what ever school you choose you do the same.

SICU Queen

543 Posts

Specializes in SICU.

Okay, I'll be brave and step into this big ol' cow pie.

I graduated from Regents in 1993 and my ADN from them has served me quite well for the last 14.5 years. I was halfway through a traditional diploma program when my husband and I split up and I was left with no car and two toddlers. Regents was the ONLY way for me to finish. It was NOT an easy program.

The tests were very hard and I spent many hours studying. The clinical portion wasn't/isn't meant to be instructional, but rather was/is an EVALUATION of skills, and I spent many hours working as a tech, watching and learning, so that I would be prepared. Of the 11 of us that were in my CPNE group, 3 of us passed. It was no cake walk, believe me. The Masters-prepared nurses who evaluated us were sticklers for exact, precise performance and one tiny slip up meant you failed.

I have had NO issue getting a job. I have worked ICU for many years now and challenge ANY nurse from a traditional school to try and outnurse me.

It won't happen.

I am a damned good nurse and I'm proud of where I come from - REGENTS COLLEGE!

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