How Chamberlain Was This Session (Houston)

[studentnurse624]

Hey y'all I just wanted to let y'all know how Chamberlain was for me this session.

So I took Fundamentals 2 and Pharmacology. This was hell on earth. I would highly advise to never take more than one class per session. I don't know how I survived this session because our Fundamentals professor did not teach us at all since she only read off of her powerpoints so we taught outselves and then of course pharmacology is information overload. Our pharmacology professor was awesome but it was still a lot to handle.

We pay thousands of dollars to come and learn and not to just sit there for our professors to just read off of powerpoints. What I really don't appreciate about this school is that they hire anyone that has a degree with no good teaching methods. Upon hiring, the school should train them or test them on how they teach. It's completely unfair for us to be struggling this way because of the way we are taught. We are failing because of our teachers. I don't care for people who say "we don't fail because of our teachers, it's supposed to be up to us" because then what's the point of us going to school? The whole point in going to school is to LEARN. I am a good student but I was nearly failing because I didn't know what I was learning since we had such a horrible professor.

I just wanted to share my experience and vent it all out because I was very unhappy with this nonsense. Please share your experience!

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

Thanks for the update. I am so sorry you're having such a bad experience.

You're absolutely correct about the lack of faculty preparation. Commercial (for profit, investor owned) schools only exist to produce a profit. Many of them spend more on marketing than faculty salaries. MSN curriculum does not provide any significant content on the discipline of education. Even MSN-Education (like mine) isn't sufficient preparation, so traditional nursing schools have structured faculty training programs & qualified mentors for their newbies.

Commercial school training for new "faculty" consists of orienting them to the software systems and equipment - nothing meaningful to actually develop their educational skills. As an professional nurse educator, I am appalled by the situation, but I don't see it changing any time soon. In their last BON report, your school was specifically cited for inadequate faculty and lack of student support. It's still on conditional approval due to poor NCLEX results, so if there aren't significant improvements, it may have to stop student enrollments. It's a shame - I was very impressed with their new building, resources and equipment when it opened.

[tnbutterfly - Mary, BSN]

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