St joseph hospital school of nursing.

[toya0419]

Hello everyone, I am new allnurses.com. I am glad to see that there is a site where I can communicate with nurses from all over. I have a question. I recently applied to St joseph Hospital school of nursing located at 8th girard ave in philadelphia, PA. It is an accelerated one year RN program. I am somewhat concerned because I don't know much about the school. They don't even have a website. I wm currently working on prequisites to start the program in november. It is fairly new and just opened up about three years ago. I would love to get the input of someone that knows about the program or has graduated from it...thanks a lot.

[reachingmydream]

you were lucky,saved you time and money!

[AddieBelle]

They cannot loose their accredidation, because they never had one.

[Millicent2]

Hi Everyone,

I'm glad that this information is coming out about St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing, maybe it will help others because its too late for me, I have a hefty price to pay back :oto Sallie Mae.:argue:

[MrsJersey]

Hi Everyone,

I'm glad that this information is coming out about St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing, maybe it will help others because its too late for me, I have a hefty price to pay back :oto Sallie Mae.:argue:

Hi, are you a current or former student? And what did you think of the program?

[reachingmydream]

Will someone from the program please remind me how bad it is currently, I need to send my response (which is currently no), just

need to hear all the bad things on last time, thanks

[strugglesmakeustrong]

please, the information you have been reading is current info. like since the program started its been jacked up and integrity does not apply at that school. Have you ever heard of any educational instituition that6 state you can not appeal or gre3ive your grades???? THIS IS VIOLATION OF STUDENTS RIGHTS. I don't beleive that they thought the colored women were smart enough to investigate and actually read the material in the students bill of rights handbook. Save yourself some serious dissappointment, they may not be around much longer.

[hiddencatRN, BSN, RN]

And even if this wasn't current information, I would need a TON of ecstatically positive reviews to even consider this school now! The NCLEX pass rates and the fact that it isn't accredited alone should be enough to give you pause.

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

First year students from any nursing program always have it the toughest. The grit and determination to try something new and plug along, persevere to graduation is admirable. New programs are not eligible for NLN or AACN accreditation until at least 2 years and proven track record of graduates.

BON closely monitor programs, NCLEX pass rates and corrective action taken to improve passage NCLEX exam. School must be accredited in order to get federal loans --so its a catch 22 situation.

NCLEX Performance - RN

From the reports here and NCLEX pass rate 25 % (25 took test, 5 passed), program needs to provide more student assistance/tutors and beef up curriculum instruction.

Credits taken here will not transfer to another institution at this time. If you are concerned about this issue, look at other programs.

Northeastern and Frankford hospitals still have diploma programs.

PA: Professional Nursing Programs

Since one is a paying consumer of education, document your legitimate specific concerns in writing professional letter to the powers at the school:

Nursing Director/Dean, Program Board even up to Hospital Board if your concerns are not acknowledged. If everyone just talks about significant issues, but doesn't formally document concerns in writing, action can't be taken nor problems ignored --especially when letter cc'd to school Admin Team.

As a manager, I'm often surprised that my staff will talk about serious issues amongst themselves but don't clue me in: copier broken, spider infestation and biting staff; door arm broken...staff member resigned and walked out with letter sent to healthsystem CEO. The eyes on the back of my head only work so far!

Any graduate/student from this program looking for assistance passing boards, please contact me. I'll try and help.

[strugglesmakeustrong]

Thanks for your words of wisdom, but all necessary steps were taken to follow protocol with letter after letter and documentation of every move has fallen on deaf ears and proves that this program does'nt care about student rights(maybe they think we don't know to investigate every avenue). Steps were taken, now the City and councilmembers that have an interest in this school must get involved, the school is failing the community that it was designed for. Determination is a big factor and brick walls you will run into , but staying persistent and not fallen off course can and will bring change. This school must not be allowed to experiment on helpless students who already felt like there was no hope to acheive their goals. Their is no justification one can speak unless you were there and experienced the unprofessionalism of faculity, lectures that staff didn't understand themselves, changing of grades and academic dishonesty. There are teachers that have no experience teaching, psych. nurses teaching the endo. and cardio. systems. What is wrong with this picture. There were no support person or tutor available to students. The person that WAS HIRED MAKES RACIAL REMARKS TO STUDENTS LIKE ITS EVERYDAY CONVERSATION. Her hours are like bankers or either she is so involved with the choosing of applicants she won't help others in need. Also, several applicants were denied admission to the program because of their accents or broken language. This is discrimmatory. So, read all the concerns and you will know that foot work is going on.

[reachingmydream]

has anyone even accepted to this program?

[rntobe2009]

There must be somebody that will be attending the program in January because they haven't changed the start date and they just posted the required booklist for January on their website.

[JumpingIn]

I do agree with the posts that talked about taking responsibity for your performance as a student and making the absolute most of your education. Nursing, clearly takes a lot of work, time, responsiblity.

Although, after reading all of the posts about the nursing schools from hell :angryfire, I think it also boils down to RESEARCH RESEARCH RESEARCH. One of the best options for searching for schools are using the BON websites for the specific state. BON usually provides info on the state's accredited nursing schools. NLNAC.org:up: provides a search for nursing programs that are nationally accredited at all degree levels. I've even found a lot of info on discovernursing.com :up:and definately from the forums on this site (allnurses.com).

I think many of us feel anxious because of the competitiveness of nursing school, but we have to be extremely proactive in researching prospective schools prior to applying to them. Think about it, we've spent a year completing pre-reqs, the cost of an education can be outrageous, earning an education is extremely time consuming and as student nurses, we're learning to sustain another persons LIFE:redbeathe. Why throw all of that hard work and responsibilty into the hands of a program that won't even provide the BASICS? It is our responsibility to educate ourselves about these programs and to some degree educate each other (allnurses is perfect word of mouth).

Consider having a loved one being in the care of a person who didn't take their education seriously. Or having a loved one being cared for by a person who wasn't given the proper clinical/skills training (as described in some of the other posts).

It definately can be hard and sometimes discouraging. We must weigh all of our options and most importantly PRAY for the clarity needed to make the right life changing decisions.

I'm sorry if it seems that I'm coming on strong, but it's unfortunate that there are so many programs out there trying to take advantage of what people don't know.