Please Help! Which school should I go to?

Bicster · Jul 3, 2008

Hi everyone,
Thanks to this forum, I found and got in to Samford university in Alabama and Kent State University in Ohio for the accelerated BSN program. Now, I am very confused as I don't know which school I should go to. I live in California right now and excited about venturing out of state for the first time. I want to become a CRNA, and Samford does offer the program, but I have to wait and start in Spring. While Kent state's BSN program starts in the Fall. My top concerns are the length of the program, location wise, and if it is good school. Your input will be very much appreciated.

its a toss up. why did you apply to nursing schools so far away?

gab.rielle · Jul 3, 2008

Hi everyone,
Thanks to this forum, I found and got in to Samford university in Alabama and Kent State University in Ohio for the accelerated BSN program. Now, I am very confused as I don't know which school I should go to. I live in California right now and excited about venturing out of state for the first time. I want to become a CRNA, and Samford does offer the program, but I have to wait and start in Spring. While Kent state's BSN program starts in the Fall. My top concerns are the length of the program, location wise, and if it is good school. Your input will be very much appreciated.

Well, I guess it depends on when you want to be out and working with your CRNA certif/degree. If you are trying to get to work asap, then do the accelerated. But it may be really grueling compared to the more lax Samford program. Do you have to wait and take pre-reqs-is that the hold up? Your education would be better, however, if you took the 'slower' one; it would be quality and you could take your time with it.

I am not familiar with either school though, so I cannot help you with figuring out which is better as far as education. Sorry about that...

If the schools are virtually about the same, then just choose where you want to live for those years you go there. Are they in nice areas? Would you want to work in the hospitals around them? (for clinicals) If the hospitals nearby are really just general hospitals, you know, not too fast paced- it is probably not a good choice for a brand new nurse. Strange, I know. But newer nurses must be thrown into situations where their freshly learnt skills are put to work- to be remembered and to gain experience. I live on the East Coast and with places like Johns Hopkins and other world known hospitals,I don't have that to worry about those things...but I wanted to share that with you because its important to take note of.

I hope you know where you want to go very soon! Good Luck!

I am somewhat in the same boat!! :) Let us all know where you choose!

-gab.rielle

snowbubbles · Jul 3, 2008

I guess I choose another state because nursing schools in CA is quite competitive to get in. I love CA and plan to move back here to work. I just think that I'll study better when I am alone in a nowhere state. I am brand new to nursing and you are right, I do need a lot of experience. Gab.rielle, you're living in the East coast, which school do you want to go to? Are you going for the BSN program too? Well, I think I am just excited and confused right now. But I have to make a decision by July 15th and I need to do a lot of research, I guess.