Resurrection University (chicago) will NOT prepare you for NCLEX

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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.

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Sorry you had a bad experience. Personally, I found that NCLEX tested all of that textbook nursing stuff and my clinicals barely scratched the surface. My skill set was pretty limited after my nursing program. My first time doing a lot of skills on a real person didn't happen until I was on the job. I don't know that more clinical time would have made a difference with how hard/easy the NCLEX was for me but it probably would have given me more confidence in my skills.

And even though I'm a graduate of a school with a very high NCLEX pass rate, I still had to do a lot of learning on my own after I completed the program.

Based on your post history, it seems like you are a little sour grapes over your nursing school experience.

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Specializes in Leadership, Psych, HomeCare, Amb. Care.

I just came from the state's webpage that lists pass rates. http://nursing.illinois.gov/PDF/IlApNursingEdProgPassRates.PDF

RU has apparently been consistently above the state pass rate, so they must be doing something right.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

LOL. I'm sitting at work in our MICU next to a res grad who is one of the most skilled nurses here.

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