Trade school credits / Nursing

[wfunches]

0i need help.... Anyone in chicago can help me....

Okay i attended a trade school in chicago downtown called computer systems institute for medical assistant. I finished my program and tried to attend city colleges for rn program but problem is they will not take my credits because they're quarter credits and city colleges go by full semester.

Now half of the classes i taken are major classes like

- medical administrative procedures

- medical terminology

- anatomy

- physiology

- foundation of clinical procedure

- medical laws, ethics, patient relations

-advance clinical procedure

- medical billing and coding

- lab procedures and phlebotomy

besides city colleges of chicago are nursing schools gonna take my credits. I feel like i wasted 10 thousand dollars at this school.

Now online colleges like colorado technical university taken all my credits but my credits go towards healthcare management and i do not want to do that.

Someone point me in the right direction is going to a city college worth it? Should i take all the major classes over?

Then they city colleges have a placement test, and i know i do not do well on placement test so i know i am gone score in the lowest of lows.

I was thinking about chamberlain college of nursing also

sorry for typing in all caps i am just mad lol.

[HikingNurse8789]

I went to a vocational school for my LPN, nothing transferred into my current lpn to RN bridge program at a community college. I started from square one like a new freshmen would. I did have the advantage of seeing the material though and I tested out of the majority of math, pre bio type classes, and English classes which did save me money. Unfortunately that is the con to vocational schools, it took me a few years to do the pre reqs but I will say I learned a lot and it was worth taking because they are enabling me to now do well in the actual nursing program. If your not wanting to do several pre reqs your option most likely would be to attend an RN program offered at a vocational type school where they build those classes into the actual program.

[wfunches]

Well I guess starting over is good for me

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

OK - PP provided a nice explanation of the difference between vocational/trade schools & those that have transferable college credits. I don't blame you for being angry. The 'sales pitch' at these high-cost commercial (investor owned) schools is very light on truth. They avoid factual information & just push everyone into signing on the dotted line in order to claim as much Federal subsidy as possible. Hopefully, OP was not locked into a high interest loan to pay for the "education".

Be sure to check out all future schools before you enroll. Don't be fooled by a lot of "accreditations" by irrelevant institutions. They MUST have regional accreditation in order for your credits to transfer to another school/college.

[wfunches]

Computer systems institute is nationally accredited and the only reason my credits transferred to Colorado tech university is because they have a bridge program. I wanna do the. Nursing program at Malcom x college but I will have to take all the gen ed classes over which I don't mind.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

Computer systems institute is nationally accredited and the only reason my credits transferred to Colorado tech university is because they have a bridge program. I wanna do the. Nursing program at Malcom x college but I will have to take all the gen ed classes over which I don't mind.

'National accreditation' is (sorry about this) mostly worthless as far as transfer of credits. Regional accreditation is the gold standard as far as transferring credits. It seems like it would be the other way around (as national is 'bigger' so to speak than regional) but it's not.

[wfunches]

Same thing I said but I spoke to everyone about this, made a few calls there is no way I can get my credits to transfer. Yesterday I went up to Malcom X College to register for the nursing program, they made me major in Pre-Nursing. The gave me a (BNA) but people know it as CNA an English class and a fine arts class. The only classes I need is BIO and Chemistry and a math class then I can apply to be in the nursing program.