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For me, the cap 2 raise is 5% of hourly rate. For me, it was $2.25. It guess it does depend on location after reading some of these posts.

I had 19 classes on my plan of study at Sacred Heart. I completed 10 classes before dropping out. Sacred Hear was not supportive and seemed money hungry, expensive and just a rip off. Wish I did my homework and checked other online BSN schools. I would not recommend Sacred Heart to anyone. The workload is ridiculous with some of the classes. I'll gladly start new at another school and leave Sacred Heart in the dust where they belong.

I enrolled in SHU RN to BSN program. I didn't look into any other program but SHU which was my first mistake. I had 19 classes to take in order to get my BSN. I took 10 courses before getting fed up and dropping out. Other online RN to BSN courses have 10 to 12 classes to take to achieve BSN. I could have my BSN right now if I had checked around. Some courses at SHU were RIDICULOUS like 2 western civilization courses, 2 religion courses, Nursing Informatics and so on. I had to take a sociology course that was NOT sociology AT ALL. I had taken sociology in the past which transferred so I couldn't understand why I needed this class. I withdrew from that class a day before it opened and I still got charged. Some of the courses were really easy but then some were ridiculous with the workload! I had an English class that required 7 books which had to be read during the 8 weeks (Hamlet, Inferno by Dante... big novels like that!). I was reading one novel a week PLUS a term paper that was due at the end. Did not like that school at all. PLEASE look into other schools. You can find better BSN online programs for a lot cheaper than Sacred Heart where you won't have to take 19 classes to get your degree. Do not recommend at all.

I couldn't have said it any better myself. I did very well at St. Vincent's College, never failed a class, and passed the NCLEX with 75 questions - I was successful at this school and therefore am not bitter. But take my word on the poster above me - she is right on cue. You basically teach yourself at this college and the professors expect you to know EVERYTHING. Tests were stressful because you had no idea what was going to be on the exam. The professors would say, "know everything"... And the stress was awful when you had literally 15-20 chapters to read knowing that everything you are reading is "fair game" for the exams. Nursing Grand Rounds was another stressful project that is such a waste of time which is done in the last class. Keep in mind, I went through the day program which was accelerated so trying to fit in this project along with all the other readings and assignments was too much for 7 weeks. Also there was waaaay too much concentration on care plans and soap notes and not enough clinical time. The clinical time that we did have was usually with a patient who was getting discharged and didn't require much care. My clinical rotations were on the same units over and over again (7N and 10N which is med surge and ortho). I would love to have gone to telemetry, respiratory or oncology units like some other students. Oh, and if one of the "awesome" clinical instructors liked you, she would hand pick you for her future clinical group which was unfair. The instructors need to rotate the students in their clinical groups. I always got the new instructors coming in who would stay for a semester and leave. I wish I had one of the seasoned clinical instructors...maybe my clinicals would have been better. One of my clinical rotations was to observe in the operating room. The surgery I was to observe got cancelled and when I asked my instructor if I could have another day in the OR to observe a surgery since mine was cancelled, she said no due to the amount of students, they can only have one day in the OR. The school cares only about your money and not your education or experience. Tuition has just gone up again and they accept so many students. The first few months of school, everyone is squished into a classroom before students start failing out or leaving to go into the evening program. The program is difficult but not impossible. If I could do it all over again, I would go to one of the community colleges. I've heard such positive things about the CC. The classes are smaller, better clinicals and the grading standards aren't as rigid as St. V.'s.