Queens University Summer 2017 Start

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Just started my application to Queens University in NC. Waiting to hear whether I got accepted to the university before I can submit my ABSN application. Applications are not due until February, but wanted to go ahead and get a head start. Anyone else applying to start in May?

Does anyone have information about purchasing books? Or do we do that during the first week? I was kind of hoping to get a feel of how much it will cost and if I could possible get them somewhere cheaper than the book store.

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Specializes in CVICU.

JSmith0508, you can go on the Queens University Bookstore website (http://www.bkstr.com/queensucharlottestore/home?MobileOptOut=1). If you plan to order them online, you'll need to make an account. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and click the link under the "Books" category that says "Textbooks and Course Materials". After you've clicked that link everything is pretty self explanatory. You plug in your semester, course number, and your section and it will pull up the book for that class and the different prices. I purchased my textbooks recently. I purchased everything new except for one book. I purchased one book used. With taxes my total was still less than $1,000. I didn't do too much research to see prices on other websites. Of course the bundle for NUR 391 would have to be purchased at the bookstore since its custom to our program. PS- You'll need to make sure you're on the desktop website and not the mobile site if you're looking at textbooks on your phone. Those links are not on the mobile site.

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Okay. Thanks CN_2bRN919!

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I would advise anyone to stay far away from Queens University of Charlotte.. the cost alone should do it. I was in the nursing program for one year, the faculty are the most unsupportive, miserable negative people I have ever met. If you go to them for any kind of help with the slightest struggle most will turn you away and tell you to change your major. There were maybe 2 or 3 compentent teachers there.. most are nearing retirement age and will stand up there in lecture and say nothing that is important for exams, so pretty much you gotta teach yourself 75% of the information.. and every cohort starts out with around 48 students and will lose at least half of the students, much of the time more than half (my cohort lost about 22 I believe after just the first semester). The school has many issues, one being that they have been on probation for a while but they will not tell you this. If you want to be respected please look into other options.. I would post names and go into more detail, however I know that it is against the TOS. Queens made me absolutely hate nursing and not want to do it anymore, so I switched majors (I'm now in school for respiratory therapy and am really enjoying it much more so far) I am advising you to save your time and money rather than go to this disorganized mess of a nursing school

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That sounds awful! Did you get to the clinical part of it? I know they have been having some trouble with their 2 year program. Which program were you in? The 2 year or the ABSN?

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That sounds awful! Did you get to the clinical part of it? I know they have been having some trouble with their 2 year program. Which program were you in? The 2 year or the ABSN?

I was in the traditional 2 year BSN track. Which was terrible enough. I can't imagine how awful the accelerated track must be, because I know it's with the same professors for the most part.

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Did you get to any of the clinicals?

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Did you get to any of the clinicals?

Yes, I did get to clinicals. You do clinicals in each of the 4 semesters of the program. It's a hit or miss with your clinical instructor.. some are good, others are not. I wasn't so lucky with clinical instructors

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Trust me, at the Queens Presbyterian school of nursing, they do NOT care about you. But they do care about making money off of you. Queens does a good job at making themselves look like such nice, warm people on the surface when you first meet them and start at their school. But then only after the first couple weeks you realize that it was all just a front.

One notable memory from my first semester at Queens was when we were in clinical one day, and there was a wonderful CNA who was great at her job and helped us (nursing students) out a lot with the patients.My clinical instructor commented to her how great she was and told her that she should seriously consider going back to school for nursing. And then she started recommending nursing programs to her in the area and did not even mention Queens at all! Not even reccomend the program that she works for... that really said something to me.

And then in the second semester there was another clinical instructor (who was good and is no longer there) that would constantly tell her students about how she sees that the program has problems and that the students should complain to the higher administration about it... and at the end of the semester she informed the students that she was leaving because Queens does not care about their students and she didn't like the program.

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It sounds like maybe nursing wasn't for you, but I know people who GO to Queens and they love it...so I'm not sure how bad it can be if many students I've talked with love it.

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Could anyone comment on the timeline of the application process for Queens? For example, when did you submit your application for general admission and when did the application for the May 2017 ABSN program become available?

I applied to Queens for general admission for Summer 2018, but I have not heard anything from them. How long did it take y'all to hear back from them for the undergraduate admission results?

I am just really confused about their timeline and hoping not to miss any deadlines. I would love to get into their ABSN program starting in May 2018. However, I do not think that thread is available yet on the allnurses blog.

Thanks for your help!

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The ABSN deadline for May 2018 is February 1st

I submitted my general application on Nov 16, and today I checked and saw that SU/FA 2018 Upper Division Nursing Application is open as well.

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