resurrection university (resU) in chicago, IL 2015

[memory's_blackhole]

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

[xoemmylouox, ASN, RN]

I'm sorry to hear you are having such a difficult time. Hopefully your warnings will prevent someone else from going there.

[jj224]

Meh. All nursing programs are somewhat disorganized. Clinical sites drop students days before clinicals start (I'm a clinical instructor at another university). One of our best ICU and one of our best ED nurses went to res. Sorry about missing a grade by 0.1%. Guess what, missing one question on NCLEX can be the difference between passing and failing. Most nursing programs don't allow people to transfer in halfway or partly through.

[memory's_blackhole]

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.