Our Lady of Lourdes Nursing Program (Camden)

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I sent my application into OLOL (Camden) and I was wondering if anyone has attended this program in the past few years? I havent really found anything on the internet about this school and I was wondering if it is a good program or not. I have read that it was good 30 years ago... but how about now? I wanted to start Jan. 2012 but they already picked for that start date so I have my application in for August 2012. As of now that is my 1st choice in schools unless I hear that it's not a great program. I am very nervous about Nursing School to start with so it is important for me to hear about the program.

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't do two sciences in one semester... it was a killer. Plus one of them was accelerated. Learned my lesson! :)

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Same here. A&P and chem together was a huge mistake. But I did it again. In the fall I am taking Micro and Nutrition. I need to get everything done. That is all I have left (besides A&PII, which I am taking this summer).

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I think the reason there aren't more evening and weekend clinicals is because of the lack of supervision. Overnight, you don't get very much hands on patient experience, and there aren't as many supervising nurses there to oversee students. The weekends are usually the same with regard to supervision - not enough nurses to treat patients and supervise students.

Good luck finding something that works! I know a woman who ended up having to leave clinicals because her husband got an out of town assignment, and she had to be at "work" at 6:30 AM - she couldn't find anyone to watch her kids :-(

Staff nurses never oversee students. Your clinical instructor will oversee you. You might find a great nurse to shadow all day, and some of them are nice about showing you procedures, but they have their job to do, and that does not include supervising students.

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butterfly817 said:
Hey guys, me again! I'm going to go to the open house next week as well. I emailed --------------------- and he said that evening/weekend clinicals are offered. I'm taking it with a grain of salt and trying not to get excited until after I attend the open house. He did tell me I should fill out the application and start all my paperwork, so I'm optimistic! I'm not thrilled about the changes, but I haven't taken statistics yet, so that's one thing off my plate. I did take nutrition though, yet I haven't taken World Civ. Definitely not looking forward to that class!

I would clarify the evening/weekend clinicals thing. When I went to nursing school, we had no choice in what days we had clinicals -- we were assigned. OLOL may do it differently, but don't depend on it until you know for sure. I'd hate to see you go there, thinking you could definitely get evening or weekend clinicals and end up assigned to day clinicals.

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You'll have to let me know how micro is - I have it in the fall, and debating whether to take it at Rutgers or Camden County. That's another class that scares me!! :eek:

If you can go to GCC and you can do early morning classes in the fall, I have a GREAT Micro teacher to recommend. He is unbelievably good at making micro comprehensible and *interesting*. I still keep in touch with him. You can PM me if you need more info, as we are not allowed to post teachers' names here.

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I presently go to OLOLSON and I absolutely love it!!! I am learning so much and so far the instructors have been fabulous. As far as clinicals, Nursing 1 was one day of clinicals each week. For us M,T OR W 7a-130p.Nursing 1 had one full day of class too. Nursing 2 is 2 days clinical T AND W 7a-3:30P and 2 half days of class so you are there 4 days a week. I don't know the 3 and 4 schedules off the top of my head. There used to be evening and weekend rotations but we have not been offered that and I am pretty sure they haven't done them for a couple of semesters at least. You definitely have to be there on their schedule for both class and clinical; it has been somewhat of a challenge to work out childcare for me but I am making it work and am thrilled I chose this program.

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I am glad to hear from someone that is currently going there. This is my 1st choice school but I dont think that I will be getting in right away. After this semester (summer 1) I still need microbiology (which I am taking in the fall). So it looks like I am 1 class short. It is upsetting. I guess I will have to reapply for the next semester. I wanted to start Aug 2012... I still hope it happens but I am not counting on it.

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I dropped off my transcripts today.. I have microbiology this summer so I will be done my sciences then, I am hoping that is enough to get in. I am glad to hear from someone in the program. It's one thing to talk to people that work at the school but you get a better feel of the school from the students. I have heard all good things about their program so far so that is good! Also everyone I have been in contact with has been really nice and extremely helpful.

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It sounds like you will have no problem getting in if you are done all your pre-req. Are you grades good? Im so jealous. I am taking A&P II right now (summer I), and I am taking Micro and Nutrition in the fall. After that I have nothing left to take except the NUR classes.

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

I graduated from Lourdes in 1968; @ that time it was a traditional 3 year "diploma" program. I just attended the 50th anniversary celebration. Things have sure changed in 43 years! I was very impressed w/how the school has merged w/the Community College for the sciences and still giving students a solid clinical experience.

I just retired in September. I wish you all a great experience, and a wonderful career. Best Wishes!

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My grades are As and Bs, and a C in Chem (blah). I talked to other people in my micro class and they did bad in chem too (Cs as well). I had my first micro class yesterday... the teacher is awesome! It's really face paced though... like 9 classes or something. All of the lectures are online (which what my A&P classes were like) and all the labs are in class, but sometimes you have 3 labs in one class! It's a 4 hour class!! At least it's hands on so it goes by quick.

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Just an FYI, ask the school if they have been able to place all the graduating scholarship students in nursing positions at Lourdes in the last couple of years. I have *heard* that there were not positions for all the graduating scholarship students recently (given the crappy job market for new nurses here in S. Jersey/Philly), but I do not have first-hand knowledge. So ask questions. :)

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