Rutgers Accelerated Nursing- Fall 2015 (Newark)

Lh91 · Dec 15, 2016

Hi Donutball, I was looking into the Rutgers program and from what you have posted it seems like it is a good program. I was hoping you could tell me a little more information. Obviously nursing is hard everywhere you go but some schools are better than others. How were the exams and professors? and were you in school everyday or 3 times a week?

Lh91 · Dec 15, 2016

congrats :) the fulltime program varies a little in terms of how courses are spread out from semester to semester. for our level 1, we had two to three lectures on tuesday (from 8am onwards), two lectures on wednesday (also from 8am on), a clinical day (practice lab starts at 8am, hospital starts at 630), and health assessment lab, which was split into 2 groups, wednesday and thursday. basically, you spend either two full days OR one full day and two half days on campus, and then one full day in clinical.
chances are you'll also be spending a lot of time studying somewhere quiet, possibly on campus or at a public library/coffeeshop/whatever works for you -- just because you're not in class doesn't mean you're not doing work. some classes are hybrid (partially/mostly online), so that class won't meet every week but you'll still have work to do and deadlines to meet. so even if you're only "in school" for 20 hours in a given week, you'll easily being doing another 20 hours of studying and care plans in that same week.
we did not get our official schedules until like 1 or 2 weeks before school started, just as a heads up. probably the hardest part of this program so far has been time management, and dealing with the stress of having one exam after another every week.

Hi, did you like the program? did you find it super difficult? Were the professors helpful?