Need Help FINDING A School

Greetings fellow Nurses . I AM FROM THE BAHAMAS I RECENTLY MOVED TO THE U.S . I AM LOOKING FOR A PRIVATE NURSING SCHOOL THAT OFFER ASSOCIATES DEGREE. ALSO ONE THAT OFFER THE PRE REQUISTES IN THE COURSE IT SELF, BASICALLY I WANT A 2 YEAR SCHOOL NOT 3

CAN YOU GUYS HELP TO NAME A FEW , WHICH STATE AND ANY OTHER INFORMATION POSSIBLE.??

ESPECIALLY CHICAGO, FLORIDA , DALLAS, AND GEORGIA

Thank you @rose_queen

Thank you for the advice .. How ever when i said private i ment an institution or technical school . Rather than a college or university.

I plan on getting my BSN i just wanted to get my foot in the door :) Thank you again !!!

There are still some some diploma programs that may have an all-inclusive curriculum that does not require any pre-requisites, but I don't believe that they are prevalent in your desired areas. Dallas does not have any diploma programs. If you plan to continue your education at some point, it would make much more sense to choose a traditional 'college hour' ADN program that requires all the basic pre-requisites. Otherwise, you will just have to (re)take them in order to obtain a BSN. There are no shortcuts.

Ok i found one in fort lauderdale

There are ways to search for schools that will help ensure you attend one that will allow you to sit for NCLEX:

1. The state's BON or other approval agency should have a list of programs in the state that are approved. If it's not on this list, proceed with caution as the state may not allow graduates from an unapproved program to sit for NCLEX.

2. ACEN and CCNE (the two bodies that accredit nursing programs in the US) allow for searches on their websites. Graduate schools and even some employers require applicants to have completed an accredited nursing program.

Go to (collegescorecard.ed.gov) and research for yourself. Here you can evaluate all schools based on metrics that have real meaning.

ACEN and CCNE accredited schools are not the first things to be considered in evaluating the totality of any individual school's reputability. Although necessary, they merely testify to a school's adhering to very minimum standards of quality.

Even some of the most sub-par, low graduation and retention rate, expensive loan mill schools have this dubious distinction of credibility.

Be careful with this.

Some of these schools even advertise on this site and they will always use CCNE and ACEN accreditation as their sleight of hand calling card to hide behind a curtain of respectability.

Case in point: The now defunct ITT tech and the Corinthian mess of for-profit schools had what were considered very well respected and established accrediting bodies overseeing those schools.

Today ITT tech's accrediting body (ACICS) is in the process of of closing shop as well as Corinthian's accrediting crony (HLC).

Both were regionally accredited. And by the way the state BONs are a big part of the nursing school quality problem in the U.S. as they have become subservient to the big money hospital corporations and their heavily lobbied state legislatures.