2nd BSN not accelerated as they portray

**NICU Guy, BSN, RN** · Jul 22, 2019

3 hours ago, Ken Berry said:
Started reading about these 2nd degree in nursing, some accelerated, for ppl like myself but there's nothing accelerated about them. If you don't have all the prerequisites completed within a certain time, the accelerated program window will close and you are left floating with handful of prerequisites and nowhere to go for at least a semester if not a year.

The accelerated part is bypassing all of the General education requirements of the BSN. They give you credit for those. At the university that I went to, both tracks had to complete their nursing pre-reqs prior to application. Traditional had two starting times (Fall and Spring) and ABSN had one (Summer). ABSN program took 15 months to complete (nursing classes) and traditional track takes 29 months. We went non-stop from May- August the next year in 4 Semesters (Summer-Fall-Spring-Summer) and the traditional track was 5 semesters of Fall and Spring with summers off (no summer classes offered for traditional students, only ABSN). So, we finished in half the time as the traditional students.

I understand your point. My cohort was the last group that was allowed to complete their pre-reqs after the application deadline. We had to have them completed before the start of Summer classes which was 1 week after the end of Spring semester. The application deadline was March 1, which meant that future cohorts had to have their pre-reqs completed by the preceding Fall semester (Spring semester would be too late because the class would be completed after the deadline). If you completed your pre-reqs in the Spring semester, you had to wait until the next Summer.

HRoark64, BSN · Jul 28, 2019

I also set my sights on nursing for my second act after the Army. Every program I looked at required A&P 1 and 2, microbiology, psych, development psych, and statistics within the last five years. I would've jumped on a school that would include all of those in a couple semesters prior to the nursing curriculum, but that doesn't seem very accelerated...nearly another full B.S.

I found a community college that offered them and paid cash to conserve my education benefits. I think they could be completed in a semester but that isn't feasible since A&P 1 is the prereq for 2, A&P 2 or biology is the prereq for microbiology, same with the psych classes.

Let me know if you're near TN or interested in relocating. A lot of great, affordable options down here and jobs galore.

caliotter3 · Jul 28, 2019

I found that my school, post Army, was very interested in massaging my GI bill benefits while not really giving me the support they crowed about. That was way before things started going way crazy with the commercialization of nursing school attendance. There was a time, believe it or not, when they didn't rack a person over the coals because of the age of their prerequisite courses. Now, they put as many obstacles in front of a returning student as possible. Monetize student time is the goal instead of promote successful student.