Nursing Help! LSU va CSN

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I was recently accepted into Charity School of Nursing and LSU School of Nursing. I know one is an ADN and one is BSN. I want the BSN but I've heard so many positive experiences with charity and how it prepares its nurses. When I ask people about lsu they really don't know. Which one is better school as far as experiernce goes? Which ones has a higher NCLEX passing rate? Does the BSN still pay a little bit more? Can anyone give me some pros and cons of each?

Charity can't possibly inflate the numbers..all transcripts are sent to LSBN after program is complete. The LSBN then gives us the ok to take NCLEX. So there is no way of inflating numbers when it comes to pass rates because the LSBN calculates the data and reports percentages. I just graduated from Charity...I personally loved the program and feel like the teachers have set me up for sucess. Which ever program you choose I'm sure both will prepare you to hit the floor!

Just keep in mind....EVERYONE WANTS A CHARITY NURSE! hehe :nurse:

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Wow! What a controversy I started. I did get that info from my charity instructors at orientation.

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Exactly. It's not the PUBLISHED, official numbers - those, of course, cannot be faked. It's the information that is being VERBALLY relayed to prospective students. When I was informed of pass rates, etc. by an advisor, I looked up the actuals on the LSBN site and they were no where near what was stated to me. Oh well, like I said it's still a respected school and Charity graduates great nurses. I was just very disappointed that school professionals would tell students one thing when the actual numbers were another (which were still excellent numbers, BTW).

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To the Original Poster, did you end up picking a school??

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The last published numbers from the LSBN website is for 2007. Perhaps they are giving you numbers from 2008 or 2009. These would be different from those from the LSBN and correct for their last graduating classes.

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If anyone cares to know what I wound up doing.. I am in level 2 at Charity and occasionally wish I had picked LSU.

I'm craving the theory to know WHY I am doing things. I look it up myself and when I try to share the knowledge I'm told "not to concern myself with that"

GRRRRRR. I'm going for a BSN afterwards, to obtain personal knowledge of theory.

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