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There's really no point in keeping it up to date as when you graduate your degree trumps it anyway

With all due respect to you, I will tell you as a 2012 grad of this program, you have many statements posted that are not true. 1. Once you graduate, where will you find work? I know for a fact at least half my class was employed within 2 months of graduating. Yes, many moved back home to smaller areas than NYC, but many did externships during school and were offered jobs right at graduation. I'm sure this number is higher, but I was not personally friends with my cohort of 200-300 (many more than 150.) 2. No one cares about grades? WRONG again. NYU medical center (a hospital which LOVES hiring nyu grads!) has a minimum GPA requirement of 3.6. What's going to look better on a resume? 3.8 from so-and-so community college or 3.5 from NYU? 3. Hospitals are not routinely hiring nurses. WRONG. In my area of Pennsylvania, including my hospital and several around it, there are 50+ GN/RN positions posted at all times with positions for every unit. 4. Sure, it may be rare that a grad gets an icu position, but NYU GRADS are usually the ones picked first. My first position was a surgical icu, and I can give you 6 other names from my class who immediately worked in adult icu, and 3 who first worked in picu or nicu. Again those are just of my group of friends. 5. Your opinion is to think twice before you "rack up debt going to nyu", which is fine, but my opinion was that I wanted to go to CRNA school, and my education at NYU best prepared me for that. (AND as a crna I'll be paying off that debt in a short time span :)

Although I am not a second degree student , I did my traditional undergrad at nyu. (Traditional students are in the same classes as accelerateds...absolutely no difference)

I graduated in 2012 and I'm already in crna school. Nyu prepared me VERY well. (I'm pretty sure the name, along with having clinicals all over the city meant a lot to my admissions committee)

Several of my coworkers are grads of this program and speak highly of it. I hear the program itself is very competitive to get into, (I heard you need at least a 90 on the entrance exam to be offered a seat.) In terms of salary, it depends on where you work. All the hospitals in the Wilkes Barre/Scranton area offer the same salary no matter where you graduated from...plus shift differentials.. While bigger hospitals in cities offer more money for Bsn etc.

A decision like this needs to be made by individual applicants based on individual needs. I graduated from NYU in 2012. While many above posters claim I have the same skills and my degree is worth the same as all of theirs, I also beat out many applicants for my ICU position and CRNA school opportunity fairly early in my career, and I've been told by many interviewers that my NYU education was obviously well worth it and shows

I'm not sure if this puts anything into perspective, but I'm 24 and considered a baby in my crna program...probably one of the youngest they've ever had. The majority is made up of students at least a few years older than me, most coming to the program with 3+ years critical care experience, so don't think the cohorts are mostly made up of students already your age

I agree with all of the above.. Right after I get report and before I walk in my patients rooms I will label each hour with an R for restraint documentation reminder, n for neuro, etc.. My hospital makes us chart q1h vitals (our monitors don't send them straight to our charting, apparently it's too much money), so I jot down notes by every hour, specifically if a dr was there, any major change in assessment, etc. Some days I could get away with not doing that and I'd be able to recall it all, but others are hectic and it helps a ton!

I rented the majority of my textbooks thinking id use some of the others after graduation and they're all sitting in storage, never to be touched again after graduation. The nyu professors/instructors base 98% of exams off of their slides they posted for the class. For nclex studying I didn't go back to any textbooks, I only used the Kaplan book we were provided

It's basically 4-5 days a week, some days being clinical days which can be at any hospital in pretty much any borough of the city. Some take almost an hour to commute to..(I had a Peds rotation in the back back back of Brooklyn and it took forever to get to.) And there's one you need to use metro north to get to which I remember being a long commute as well. Basically all of them I guess, because when clinical begins promptly at 7 and you're not allowed to be 2 minutes late, you end up going early in case public transportation sucks. You do make your own schedule to an extent.. You're handed a progression map of what you're taking in which semester and you choose what sections to sign up for (hoping the one you want isn't filled) because remember, it's all the accelerated students AND traditional students together. You choose class sections and clinical sections but are not guaranteed ANY specific one you may want The program is time consuming.. I did hold a job 15 minutes from campus and probably worked about 30h a week, but it was very difficult

I went to nyu and it took me about 3 weeks to get my att in pa Graduated May 13, 2012 Got my att first week of june Took test first week of July Yeah it felt like forever, but I had classmates from California waiting until august for their att

It's definitely in the student handbook, maybe it's too early? If your first day of the semester is a clinical, you do need to wear the uniform. If it's a class day at nyu you can wear whatever you want

For clinicals you will be required to wear nyu nursing scrubs, they are available in the bookstore. They are bright purple. Shoes must be white and non-porous (think of dripping bodily fluids on your shoes..) they can be any brand, as long as they are strictly white (nursing shoe or sneaker, no clogs.) Some clinical instructors allowed students to wear colored running sneakers but mine were very strict with the white. You can wear long sleeve white shirts under the scrubs if cold. No jackets of any sort. For 1-2 of the clinicals (community and psych) uniform is business casual

Just wanted to clarify a little bit... As a recent nyu nursing graduate, I can tell you nyu has the BSN program, and the RN to bsn program, which is basically individualized. The main bsn program is a combined program of "traditional" students, as in students who entered the program right after high school, and the "accelerated" program, as in students who have a degree already. Both of these groups take the SAME classes together as ONE cohort. The traditional students spend the first 2 years of their schooling doing the liberal arts classes nyu requires. At the start of year 3 they begin the actual nursing portion. The nursing portion is 4 semesters. Traditional students typically (but not always) do fall/spring, have summer off and do fall and spring. some choose to go straight thru summer to finish earlier. "Accelerated" students also do 4 semesters of nursing. They do 4 straight semesters, going straight thru. Once admitted, there is absolutely no difference between traditional and accelerated students. They are integrated in all classes and clinicals.