NEVER do an ABSN

[Ms.PreReqs]

Never do an ABSN. It's insane. There is never time to study, they give you so much homework that you're always constantly and frantically hunting for answers, you'll be so overwhelmed you can't process it all, and although we're known as the "type A" ones who can handle it, we are all individually breaking down behind the scenes. If you can take the time to give yourself more time to absorb material and not jump into this masochistic hell hole of academia, do that instead. imho.

[mulaniani]

40 minutes ago, nursinggal2021 said:

how do you know that your program is "good"? im deciding between pace, GWU, rutgers, and Umass-amherst..... are any of these "bad" programs?  this thread is scaring me :(!

Don’t be scared at all! I withdrew from my terrible ABSN and I’m starting at a great school in April! For me it was more personal because I know ALOT of nursing students in other programs. I knew there were things my school was and wasn’t doing that was seriously not OK. I’m not talking about having a lot of exams or homework that’s normal. I’m talking like you cannot email professors, we had no ATI books (they were sitting in an admin office), school lied about their NCLEX pass rate, dean quit the week I withdrew, they knowingly exposed us to covid, teaching things not on the NCLEX, them failing an entire cohort of 34 students and making them retake the course instead of evaluating the professor, so those are serious red signs. I have amazing friends from my old program  and still keep in touch with them. I personally just could not pay tuition to be shorted or “set up” to fail because when your in these nursing programs this is your career it isn’t a joke so you have to know the material. That’s what really scared me, I wasn’t even learning basic material just skating through! I was doing well but skating by and it scared me 

[Tatyana]

This sounds terrible.. I am sorry you had such a poor experience. What school is that, if you don't mind sharing? What state?