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After graduating resU, I'd like to point out to anyone thinking about attending resurrection university near chicago will NOT prepare you for the NCLEX. Instead of all those "written assignments" that replaced actual clinical time, they should have given us real time in hospitals to learn the skills that are being tested on the NCLEX. Over and over, the teachers say that "these things aren't needed, aren't tested, etc". And on their tests, that is true. But the NCLEX tests many different skills. You can make it through resU w/o ever doing a tube feeding, IV start, and maybe even a patient transfer. No, not a lazy student that avoids work, I mean someone that is after every opportunity possible and volunteers as much as possible. NCLEX wants to teach you "text book"/"perfect" nursing skills that aren't altered by "reality". resU WILL NOT give you the base to do well on this test. Anyone that passes the NCLEX will so by reading additional material on their own outside of resU.

resU is a horrible school and I would seriously think about going pretty much anywhere else. its not hard the way you think a nursing program should be. the teachers and administrators are horrible people that make your life there miserable. the academics are too easy--they won't teach you anything. you won't get all your clinical hours---so you won't have much experience when you "graduate". last semester, there was no pharm class--they fired the teacher and the students had to teach themselves. the teachers are incredibly sensitive and need to remind you constantly that you are worthless. some will actually laugh and clearly enjoy failing you. AVOID that place!

jja224 -- missing the grade isn't the point, its asking questions that they themselves now disagree with because they don't remember why they answered the way the did last night when they wrote the test. if you disagree with the book, or can't explain why its true then it shouldn't hurt the students. as for clinical sites dropping students--- how about the school unable to find a teacher for clinical, until the students ask around to find a teacher. that isn't any real world logistics we are talking about here. and as for "most nursing programs don't allow people to transfer"---again, not the point. the point is that the ONLY reason people are stuck there is that reality. if it was like normal schools, people would transfer and there would be a bigger wake up call to how horrible that school is. and no, not all nursing programs are this horrible even if they may e disorganized--- but even that...how can that be? i would be ashamed to be a teacher or admin attached to such sad performance. they act like children. in bigger universities/schools, and in the rest of the world, teachers don't act like that. your two former-res folks--ask them what they think.

its a horrible experience, especially the even/weekend part. you will hate every moment of it. if you can deal with the crappy treatment for 1.5years then you may get a degree (if they don't decide to boot you out for arbitrary crap). most nursing students will complain about how hard it is academically. resu isn't hard because the teachers and the students all cheat. both use publisher test banks so everyone already knows. but some teachers will add their own questions that make no sense ...even to them. when you try to ask them later they will respond with "well, that's not what i was thinking at the time i wrote the question". so, unlike most nursing students that complain because it is legitimately a challenge, resu students are just screwed because of teacher's phoning in their effort, not supporting you and making arbitrary evaluations as if they were god themselves. it really is a horrible experience. and no its not as if "all nursing programs are hard". this isn't academically hard...its hard to guess what the teachers are randomly thinking. and when you are wrong, some will actually laugh and enjoy your failure. no, that isn't an exaggeration.

if you are considering resurrection "university" in chicago you should consider: *you won't get all your clinical hours. you'll end up doing busy work instead. *you won't get support from teachers. some teachers won't let you review your tests to see how you can do better. they limit your "contact hours" with them. *hippocracy: if you need to miss a class, they will make a huge deal out of it, possibly write you up and you have to go see various administrators about it. which, ironically, they may have to reschedule because they have outside concerns. *they phone in everything. you won't get some grades back till your final week so even at the end you have no idea how you are doing in a class *many teachers think they are a god unto themselves. you have to throw out everything you learned in previous classes because the way they do things is all that matters. *some teachers want you to cry. they've said that even. they hate if you get through unscathed. oh, and crying will get you favors. if you don't like your assignment, go cry to the coordinator and you may get it changed. *they really don't care about you. let's say you are schedule for clinical site A on wednesday, and someone else has the same site on Friday. both of you need to switch to the other one for job reasons. the school will tell you both to drop out and try again next time. *they may send you to clinical sites that don't exist anymore. or if you wanted a daytime clinical, you may get a night time! (no, not evening...dead of night! in a psych ward!) *if credits would transfer to other schools, everyone would jump ship. but because they have you locked in, everyone is stuck till graduation. *on top of the wild subjective scoring the teachers use on tests and assignments, if you miss your C by .1%, tuff luck. you fail. *some electives are harder than the core classes. and when the teacher happily fails you (yes, they will laugh about it), that will be one of your two allowed failures before you get kicked out. and the list goes on. its expensive, not worth it and when you listen to what other nursing students learn at other schools, you realize you aren't even being taught enough. is a horrible school. avoid it at all costs

There is an E/W tutor. Apples are the majority I think.

from any former students, this is the sort of thing i hear as well. its not just this year, its previous year. there is no reason to think it will be different next year.

i'm a student at resurrection. i'm speaking from experience. my suggestion to go anywhere else is based on that experience.

you may not even get clinicals. they will make you all around to find your own replacements if they can't staff the sites---they don't even ask their own teachers when trying to find replacements. thats up to you. oh, and instead of being at the clinical site talking to patients--nope, you need to spend 2 hours phoning around to find a homeless shelter or an AA meeting you can attend. called 30 spots and didn't find one? too bad for you. lets say you get a clinical assignment-- then they will whittle that down with busy work instead. 10 days of clinical? nope, now its 8 + some busy work you won't have time for. don't like that? now its 6 + even more busy work. go. to. lewis.

i've heard a few teachers tell students that they wouldn't be good nurses.

its not day or night..its the teachers, the staff... they don't coordinate. when they can't find a teacher to teach a clinical, screw you. its up the students to call around and find teacher. and when the teachers they do have don't want to show up on a sunday (for the evening weekend clinicals), they tell you to call around and find a shelter to go volunteer at to get your hours. if they don't show up to the first few weeks of class, ok. if at student misses a few classes, ADRN! wooo, superserious!

the program is uncoordinated. they can't find enough staff to keep everything going--so they make you do busy work instead of see patients.

anywhere is better than resurrection. they won't give you the clinical hours you need--instead you will get busy work. some teacher's may help, others will laugh at you when you do poorly and won't try to help.

E/W teachers won't help you. I don't know about daytime--they get answers to tests in the form of "high focused reviews". I hope you also study beyond what the simple class tests try to evaluate. The tests are written by daytime teachers and the night/evening teachers will tell you stories about this or that without regards to the test which they haven't looked at. Good luck with that. Nobody talks about the ATI tests which are required. It's a teach-yourself-nursing program. If you complain about any of this, they will treat you like children. If this is your first degree, you may believe them. If you have other degress and know how a real school works, you'll see through their laziness and lack of support. There are a few good teachers. I've heard of them. They are somewhere. They probably teach daytime.

Hello, I'm looking for a book that has a list of many medical diagnoses and under each are a list of common nursing diagnoses. like a care plan book, but more quantity of diagnoses (both medical and nursing) and less focused on the care plans themselves. so if i have a patient with colon cancer, give me a list of the 10 top nursing diagnoses we're likely to see with that person. my clinical instructor said she had one in school. we don't seem to have a book like that. we have the care plan book with a lot of examples, but not what we're talking about. THanks..