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Ok i work at a hospital as a CNA. I've asked my boss,personally, and she said IT DOES NOT MATTER WHERE YOU GET YOUR RN FROM AS LONG AS YOU HAVE A LICENSE FROM THE BOARD OF NURSING!! Over half of our RN staff are new grads and i cant wait to join them. My friend is also a RN and she said the same as my boss. I went to the nursing seminar yesterday at ITT and I fell in love. 3 days a week sounds great to me considering that I work 3 days days a week for 12 hr shifts 7p-7a. Gives me breathing room. I also liked the fact that you have alot of clinical hours(hands on instead of reading a book). Because I work with nurses of course I've asked where they went and did they enjoy it. Most say no and that all nursing programs are hard including ITT. They say that community college nursing programs make you learn unnecessary things and once you get out you don't even use it and they do this because they have high mighty names. Plus the way cc's treat you is ridiculous. I believe ITT will be straight to the point and let you learn ONLY what is need to be a RN NOT RN material plus more stupidity. About "not being able to transfer credits to get BSN" HELLO ITT as a BSN program.

Is everything included in the tuition like uniforms and etc?

That's awesome to hear. I did not get to start in October but if I pass the TEAS test I'll start this January. Have you spoken with anyone who has graduated from the program? I work for Thomas Hospital which offers tuition reimbursement for every semester passed but in return you have to work for them for 3 yrs (i think its 3 yrs) so I'll have a job but i worried about if i ever left Thomas Hospital which i probably want leave infirmary health systems but maybe Thomas tho.

So just wondering how everything is going for u?

Wow where are u located?

Yeah I went to Faulkner State Community College and did my pre reqs. and Now i'll be attending VC (mobile) in October. Thanks for the info.

Thanks for the info. I'm thinking sbout attending VC in October and the only thing holding me back was that i wasnt sure if I could further my education. I just wanted to be able to get my BSN and south alabama is where I really wanted to go. Now that I no I can further my education I am definetly going to VC cause I loved it, especially the fact that it is a lot of hands on and small classes and the teachers help you out a lot. So now I'm just wondering where your at in your process of getting your BSN?