Would a Nursing Internship Program be a good idea and viable instead of a possible 5 year BSN course?
This would be a post-grad program after the 4 yr BSN course for 1st coursers and after a 2-3 year course for 2nd coursers.
This would be patterned after the Internship program done for med. graduates where post-grads are mandated by law to serve in just one hospital for a minimal fee or almost free service for 1 year. Also, because of this law, Med Interns are actually getting all the basic procedures such as inserting IVs, Foley caths, NGTs, do wound care on their surgical rotations, do lumbar punctures for those w/ anesthesia rotations (under supervision of course) and other basic procedures.
I just think that this is better than having a 5 year course or having nursing students rotate on diff. hospitals. Just 1 hospital for 1 full year and you rotate on all the hospital's Depts. On provincial hospitals as well for those graduating from Govt' schools just like what they make Gov't med graduates do.
During my 2nd yr in nursing the dean of our school told us that there will be a selective retention policy, students need to achieve a certain average grade(85%), however when we reached our 3rd yr we expected the number of students to go down since not all were able to maintain the average grade required, But the selective retention was not implemented, my batch is composed of around 1000+ students when we inquired what happened to the policy the dean just replied : "Business is Business!!" ...
lawrence01
2,860 Posts
I think that answers a lot...