Sunbury Hospital RN Diploma Program

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Specializes in Hospice.

I find it odd that this particular hospital (sunbury hospital in sunbury..coal miner country) is offering an RN diploma program.

What exactly can you do with that in the state of Pa? I thought a lot of hospital accreditation had to do with a certain number of employees having degrees?

I start LPN school on Monday so, LOL I know nothing about any of this but my school is excited about the RN diploma program that this affiliate hospital is offering and it seems pretty worthless to me but again, I don't really know anything. But what if I did this and I wanted to take my license to another state, perhaps.

I was just under the impression that a diploma RN was becoming obsolete in the majority of states.

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Hi ODOZ,

I don't know about the Sunbury program, but I have been accepted into a diploma program in the Philadelphia area. It is very hard to get into, only accepting about 60 day and 60 evening students per year. It is run by a magnet status hospital and they do hire the graduates. In my area a diploma is the same as an ADN. There has not been a problem with diploma RNs tranfering credits to other area BSN programs when furthering their education. I do have friends that are going to the community college ADN program and what they tell me is that they are only scheduled for about 2/3rds of the clinical time that I am scheduled for. From what I understand this is the difference between the diploma and the ADN programs. I had to take all the same pre reqs they did and some they didn't have to take. I also have a few fellow nursing students who are going to a diploma program in NJ, they too had to take the additional courses. I happen to be someone who learns better by doing, so this was the right choice for me.

I would check it out. It may work out for you as a stepping stone in your education and career.

Good luck,

Mntgrl

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I graduated from a 33 month diploma program in 2000 and would consider my education to be far from "worthless". Unless you are planning to teach or be in administration, you can be hired anywhere that an ADN can, you are an RN just the same. I was told that many doctors prefer nurses who graduate from the diploma programs because we have more clinical experience. We were working with patients from the second month of school while others did not get to see a patient until their second year. Salaries are identical between RN's no matter where you went to school. We all had to pass the same NCLEX.

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Specializes in Hospice.

Hey guess what, I didn't call your education worthless. Please stick to answering my question re: if HOSPITALS consider this worthless in terms of ADVANCEMENT, because, I came HERE to ask this specific question because I DON'T KNOW the answer.

No need to be defensive.

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