Good Samaritan School of Nursing Current and Former Students Cincinnati, OH

Lilyanni · Apr 5, 2009

Anyone?

Lilyanni · Apr 7, 2009

anyone please. any thing about the school will help. thanks

Jennifer7076 · Apr 7, 2009

I was also accepted to good sam, but I was also accepted to christ and decided to go them. I have heard alot of good things... how the teachers are great and will help you if you need it, but you have to WANT this is what I was told. They said it is a VERY!!! intense program and a lot of people do drop out. I know of 2 people who dropped out, but I also know 2 people who made it and loved the program! Here's what I would tell you.... All nursing programs are going to be hard and intense! If you truly what this you will make it work for you! You have a year to decide what to do if you start in Aug of next year. Do you have any of your gen. ed classes done? Another idea would be to start this fall at a local college and take some of your classes and get them out of the way. I went to Cincinnati State and did all my gen. ed classes, except for the 13 credit hours that I have to take at Christ. Cin. State is very cheap and I like it there, but they go on 8 week terms, so if you next 2 english’s at GS then you will need 3 english’s at Cin. State. If your confused I can explain further. I hope this helps!!! Let me know if you have any other questions!

Lilyanni · Apr 8, 2009

hi jennifer7076, thank you so much for the reply. i have all my gen. ed already done except the 12 credit i have to take at good sam. i am only going to take the two chemistry classes and ethnic health and a math there, which is exactly 12 credits. i wish i can find someone from good sam who can tell me about these gen. edu classes and the nursing class. do you think i can go ahead and take the chemistry classes in community college and transfer it? and instead of the two chemistry class repeat another class when i get there for example sociology and psychology. i am just thinking if it is easier that way if it is allowed. by the way i am not in cincinnati and never been. i live in salt lake city, ut. what is it like there? where is good sam located in the middle of down town or suburb? is there decent apartment around there? let me know if you can and thanks again.

Jennifer7076 · Apr 8, 2009

My goodness you'll be far from home! Well Good Sam isn't right in the middle of downtown, and I wouldn't consider it in a suburb. It's in Clifton which I would say that's about 10 mins. at the most to downtown. I'm so not familiar with that area, because I'm from the other side of the river in Ky. All I can tell you is a lot of the younger students that I know from Cincinnati State live in Clifton and love it! Me on the other hand I'm older and married, with kids, and I wouldn't like it. Good Sam is located right in the hospital on the upper level floors and there are apartments around there. UC is also close to there and I believe if you keep going further up the from the hospital there are other hospitals. I know that there are parts of Clifton that are very very nice and then there are some where you should never walk alone at night. But you'll have that anywhere you go.. for the most part I would think it's pretty safe. You should really come take a look before you decide that this is what you want! You have around 5 months left to pay your fee, I would maybe come down for a few days and check out the school and the surrounding area. As far as the chemistry I would say yes you can take it somewhere else and take something else to get your 12 credit hours. I only say that because when I was over at Christ last week he told me if I would have gone ahead and taken another Soc. I would have to take another gen. ed course to make sure I had my 13 required hours. So I'm just assuming that Good Sam is most probably the same. With that said I would call and ask just to make sure before you waste your money. Hope this helps! If you need anything just ask!

Lilyanni · Apr 8, 2009

ok thanks i will call them about the chemistry class.

katieh · Apr 22, 2009

i got accepted for the august 2010 program too and i only got credit for chem 101...let me know what you find out about chem classes! thanks

Lilyanni · Apr 22, 2009

Hi katieh I will let you know if I get any information. Are you going to take the other general education there too? Did they tell you when you will start the nursing courses and when you will finish the program. why don’t you take some of the general classes until then?

katieh · Apr 22, 2009

they took my micro, chem1, psych and english classes so i'll be taking whatever other gen eds to finish...the girl i talked to said if you arent directly accepted into nursing (like there isnt enough spots) the first semester you are in gen eds then you start nursing...what about you? where are you taking other gen eds at?

Lilyanni · Apr 23, 2009

i am also going to take the general education classes first. i will be taking the two chem. classes, health care ethics and pharmacology math. i think you are going to take bio 201 anatomy & physiology, bio 202 anatomy & physiology, chem. 102, math 103 pharmacological math, psy 205 lifespan development, soc 103 introduction to sociology, eth 312 health care ethics. you can take some of these classes until then and get them out of the way. i can’t take anymore classes until then because they have a rule that we have to take 12 credit of the general education at good sam and all i have left is the 12 credit hr for now. are you from cincinnati and what do you know about the school and about the professors? i am in salt lake city utah for now and will be moving soon.

katieh · Apr 23, 2009

i am from cincinnati...i dont really know anything about the profs just that the school is supposed to be a really great nursing school...when are you moving?