Help Needed From Virginia Rn's!!

[serenity67]

i am currently enrolled in the excelsior college lpn to associate degree rn program, a program that is fully accredited by the nln, a program now being rejected by my state of virginia's bon. i have been in close and frequent contact with the assistant dean of the excelsior college nursing program and the va bon. there is a growing movement developing to fight this new legislation and i implore my fellow va nurses of all degree levels to join in this fight! trust me when i say that you may think this ruling doesn't effect you, but it will effect you in regard to contributing to the already existing critical nursing shortage, resulting in continued short staffing and increasingly unsafe nurse to pt. ratios... just think... right now there are over 36,000 practicing rn's across the u.s. who graduated from this excelsior college nursing program... 36,000!! i have some extra of info about what's happening with the ec/va bon situation, but i know this site does not allow us to post links. in my profile you can visit my homepage and send me an e-mail from there if you are willing to lend your voice to help fellow nurses effected by this recent injustice. these kinds of changes have been happening in other states and i think excelsior college has had "just about enough of it". if you live in the state of va please please contact me!! please send me an e-mail!!

[benice2me]

DELVENIA, Good luck with nursing school. Remember when in doubt,ALWAYS ask questions. Regardless of education,all nursing staff are important members of the team. Unfortunately, some nurses feel the need to treat new nurses bad. I've never felt that need. Maybe they get some kind of power trip. Remain positive . You will be fine.

[Kyluh]

We had several LPN to RN "bridgers" in my class and once our 2nd year began, they had to back up and take the Pharm and Assessment classes that we had already took. However, they did not do nearly as many clinical hours as we did. I had an instructor tell me that it is much more beneficial for an LPN to begin straight into the full 2year program because there are a lot of fundamental info that students get in the first year of nursing school that the bridge students miss. Either way good luck.

[serenity67]

We had several LPN to RN "bridgers" in my class and once our 2nd year began, they had to back up and take the Pharm and Assessment classes that we had already took. However, they did not do nearly as many clinical hours as we did. I had an instructor tell me that it is much more beneficial for an LPN to begin straight into the full 2year program because there are a lot of fundamental info that students get in the first year of nursing school that the bridge students miss. Either way good luck.

The benefit of the bridge program with Excelsior College is that (aside from the general ed. pre-req's) there is a substantial Nursing theory portion that, in total, are divided up into about 9 seperate courses. These courses cover both a review of previously learned info, as well as expanding into the info for the RN theory education that the LPN curriculum does not include. I personally think just "jumping in" to the 2nd year of a bridge program would be more difficult. I like the format of Excelsior College... I think it refreshes your base knowledge before moving you forward.

[FA to CRNA2b]

I hope your bedside manners are better than your comments! FA TO CRNA

I will sugarcoat it for you next time, okay?