msmama0509

This was very helpful thank you!

And if I do end up with a useless degree I will sue the f$@& out of Itt because they promised me a degree as long as I do what suppose to and pass! So there is a solution for everything!

Please stop with the misinformation! How do you know something is lacking in Med surg because it's in quarters? That don't even sound right. Who cares what they call their curriculum quarter is another name for semester. Financial aid keeps us up to date every quarter and if you have waited til the end and found out you owe them more money it's because you weren't on top of your stuff keeping track! Itt is nationally acrredited which means you can't transfer credits to a university! I have sat with Purdue calumet and govenor state and they both said they would take my Itt tech credits. Also to whatever employer is saying they will not hire ITT TECH GRADS that is discrimination and they can be sued if somebody finds out they are doing that! Like I said before as long as you have an RN BEHIND YOUR NAME YOU WILL FIND WORK!!! I have a friend who graduated in 2013 and is now working in a hospital in Hawaii making $45 and hour!!! My cousin is in Indiana working at kindred right now making $29 and I work in a hospital that is waiting for me to graduate and pass boards to hire me so please unless you do your research and are actually going through the experience instead of relying on what everybody else tells you please stop spreading myths and twisting the information. The school is not perfect no school is...I came from a community college program that had to shut down and revamp they whole curriculum it happens! Yes it's expensive but there are many loan forgiveness programs for public service workers and that includes healthcare. I am not going about this blindly, I do my research and have a plan but to each there own.

I'm a nursing student with one year left....Sometimes watching videos can help you skip some of the reading. For instance watching a video about the pathophysiology means I don't have to read it in the chapter. Then pick out the sections that matter the most charts boxes clinical alerts...for instance in fundamentals the nursing process and patient teaching is what I read and I can watch the skills techniques. I'm a visual learner and videos help me a lot! YouTube is my best friend and I have a photographic memory.

Whatever you do please don't vent to anyone!!! Don't let anyone hear you complaining and you don't have to mislead them just let them know "we are associates" and that's it. Believe me if you don't like someone nurses are going to gossip about it, I hear it all the time. And they will throw you under the bus the minute some thing goes wrong. People tend to choose sides really quick so I would just stay to my self and ignore and keep things real short.

You should wait and find an employer who will pay for your BSN first ...you might need to go into another position for time being. The days of having no experience and getting hired for a specialty is over. Do a year of med surg and then transfer departments. Labor and delivery have medical problems other than labor stuff that's why you need a experience.

Breckenridge Itt tech is accredited,and as long as you have RN behind your name you CAN get into a bachelor degree program. There are schools that will take our credits, They even launched their own. I'm at Orland park ,IL and I must say the teachers there are great. You can go to them for anything and they care! Yes we do have low passing rates but it's not because of the teachers. It's because of the quality of students they are letting in and their policies. While I am in med surg 2 starting sept 16th I will say there is a lot of self study but you get out what you put in! Most schools are self study whether you spending money or going to a community college. It's not a walk in the park like so many young people may think. It's a mixture of people in the school I'm at and the older crowd who really wants to be there is mixed with a younger crowd that just needs something to do, have no experience what so ever in healthcare and are in it for the money. Those are the ones that are failing or getting to the end and not passing exit HESI or NCLEX. They are in the process of fixing there review for NCLEX. I'm class of dec 2015 and so far I have passed both my pharm and fundamentals HESI and with 2 more to go and I will be graduating and passing my NCLEX!