Holy Name Hospital vs Christ Hospital Nursing Program

[TheDreamJourney]

I am 23 years old and I have my BA in Psychology. However, I realized that I wanted to pursue a career in nursing my last two years of college. But instead of starting over I decided to finish my undergraduate degree in psychology and go back to school for nursing. I applied to NYU and I didn't get accepted. I am looking into Holy Name Hospital School of Nursing and Christ Hospital School of Nursing. Both schools are located in NJ and both have the registered nurse program. I want to know if anyone has information on these schools. For example, are they good nursing programs, are they hard to get into, etc. thanks!

[Cek21]

Holy Name is an extremely competitive program with great NCLEX pass rates. The real benefit of Holy Name over BSN programs is the number of hands-on clinical hours. I just graduated, and during the last semester, we get to juggle 4-5 patients, really being their nurse with full access to the computer and paper charts, and we're doing foleys, G Tube feeds, colostomy care, dressing changes, and nurses notes that really get put on the chart, of course under guidance of a nursing instructor and a primary nurse. It’s a great prep for the real world. My plan is to get hired somewhere that will pay for my BSN OR maybe just do a bridge to an MSN since I already have a Bachelor’s in another field. It’s a lot less expensive to do it that way!