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Nursing program- should I stick with mine or look elsewhere?

I was accepted into my schools program but decided to take an extra year to finish up some classes and work on my minor. I'm going to reapply but I'm having some doubts.

I am on scholarship and it will pay for half of my nursing school, so over all it will cost 8k for the 20 months for my BSN. Which isn't bad. My concern is the program. I have friends in it now, and I've taken a couple classes from the nursing college and I am by no means impressed. It is extremely disorganized and some of the instructors are unreliable.

Yes this program is affordable and even though it's not good quality, I teach myself very well. I taught myself the entire renal system to understand a chapter in my pathophysiology class! (Which was actually a blast). But I want to come out of a program feeling completely confident in my skills and I want to trust my professors. Would it be worth it to go to a more expensive program maybe in a state nearby and include the cost of living and such? Or is the low price of my current program more important and I should tough it out?

I have a 93 on my HESI and a 3.9.

Any recommendations for programs??

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    What is their NCLEX pass rate? Also, what accreditations do they have? Not sure exactly from how you're wording it, but no nursing program that is good will spoon feed anything, you'd never learn critical thinking skills needed.

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    Their last one was 72 but the year before it was 93 and the years before that it was in the 80s. I promise I know the difference between a disorganized program and being spoon fed! They are accredited and all, but I'm wondering if it's worth the enormous cost to go elsewhere. I like a challenge but I also like professors I can trust. One of the nursing professors told our class that capillary osmotic pressure and colloidal osmotic pressure were the same thing, little things like that. And if I hadn't taught myself everything the night before I would not have known that was incorrect! That is worth my skepticism, right? Or should I expect that?

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    One of the nursing professors told our class that capillary osmotic pressure and colloidal osmotic pressure were the same thing

    They are pretty much the same, except the "solutes" are actually dissolved in one and in the other they're not. But the concepts of tonicity apply to both.

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    I thought capillary osmotic pressure was the pressure in the circulatory system and colloidal osmotic pressure was the pressure in the tissue. Is that wrong?

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