School Denied accreditation

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I am in a delemma, my school i am in, lost accreditation. They recently went through their reaccreditation process, which has 3 steps; 1st they had a team come look at the program and their report was that we should be accredited. Second, they had the acen commitee come and look at it and they said that we should be accredited; finally it goes to the CEO of acen for approval and she denied it... now what? of course they are appealing it but where does that leave me....

1. i can wait out the appeal process and continue on as if they are going to get it the CEO of acen is retiring and new person may make a different decision, after all the appeal process could continue on after i graduate.

2. see if the state BON will give us a waiver as we're more then halfway through the program.

3. wait for the school to find us a spot in another program which could add more time in school

4. jump ship to another program that is accredited and may or may not make me redo some of the classes i have already taken.

I already know that i took a risk not going the traditional university college route, i am a older student who is also trying to change carrers, support a family, and go to school. I don't know what to do.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

Which accreditation?

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Specializes in NICU, Trauma, Oncology.

Esme - ACEN

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Specializes in Hospital Education Coordinator.

call the BON. Ask if you will be allowed to sit for NCLEX if you graduate. That is all you need right now.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

Are you sure you are receiving accurate information about the prior accreditation activities? I have never heard of an instance in which accreditation higher-ups reversed a 'good' decision made by the surveyors.... vice versa, yeah - some programs have "won" on appeal and been awarded conditional accreditation.

I also wonder - was this an initial accreditation or re-accreditation. If it was the latter, there's definitely more information below the surface. Decisions to yank accreditation are always very deliberate. Schools know exactly what the problem is and are given a lot of time to correct the issues.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
call the BON. Ask if you will be allowed to sit for NCLEX if you graduate. That is all you need right now.

THIS.

As long as the BON has approved your program; then you will be able to take the NCLEX.

An accreditation (CCNE or ACEN) matters if one wants to transfer their credits for university requirements for a BSN or MSN program. If that matters to you, then you will have to make a decision.

Before you make a decision, go into the ACEN website to see if your school is listed at all; it may have been a reaccreditation process; but find out FIRST, and if you are planning to change schools, contact local schools before transferring; most schools have no idea what another schools' program is set up, and you may have to start over.

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Specializes in Med/surg nurse, 9 years experience, 5 as travel.

The ADN school I went through lost their national accreditation my second year, us students felt betrayed and worried about what it really meant to us and our nursing career. The school had many meetings and assured us that we could still finish and even offered to pay for our LPN NCLEX exams. But in the end the thing that matters most is that your school HAS to keep it's STATE accreditation in order for you to sit for the RN NCLEX exam. If your school still has it's state accreditation then you will be fine and from the research that all my classmates and school looked into you shouldn't have any problem getting into a BSN program later on if you want to and when it comes to a job it doesn't really mean much (they just want to know if you've passed the NCLEX board exam).

I think each college from state to state has different requirements on what kind of accreditation an ADN school has (for getting into a BSN program)..but honestly its not that big a deal, this is coming form the State Of Washington.

So with all this said I would say stick to your current program but of course look into the options you have for yourself once you finish, such as how far you want to go in your college studies (BSN, MSN or ARNP?), what college you have in mind, call and ask if it's a problem...do your OWN research.

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Specializes in ICU.

Let me guess, a for profit school? To be perfectly honest with you, most hospitals won't hire people from these schools. Especially if they have lost accreditation. They lost it because their NCLEX pass rayed are bad. And they are given lots of time to fix it because they go on probation first. I am also an older student and have a child to take care of which is why I did my research on schools. I am afraid you wasted your money.

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Thank you for the feedback... it isn't just the for profit schools in my state (utah) that are in trouble for the pass rate. Utah as a whole is below the national average in pass rate on the first try. I am going to stay with the school i am at because i am almost done.

I have seen some university trained nurses that have BSN's that are bad and good, likewise those that went other routes that are really good or really bad. As long as you pass your NCLEX i have found that it doesn't matter, it is who you are as a person and your work ethic.

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As long as you pass your NCLEX i have found that it doesn't matter, it is who you are as a person and your work ethic.

That's not necessarily true. I know managers who won't hire from certain school in our are because of the reputation of the program or because she has hired students from those schools before and the new employees aren't competent. And I'm not talking about just one person from the program, I'm talking about a pattern of consistently bad new employees. Where you go to school does matter and employers do look at what school you attended.

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