Transferring from nationally accredited school?

[McKMM]

Hello! I'm hoping someone can help! What schools out there accept nationally accredited nursing school credits? I may leave my program (more than half way through) and my options are looking very slim.

My program requires passing ATI's after each term and even if you pass the class but fail the ATI you are withdrawn from the program. IF you are accepted for re entry, you are placed into the next class that could be up to 40 weeks behind! Are all schools like this?

Thanks!

[NICU Guy, BSN, RN]

Very few nursing schools will accept nursing credits from another school. BONs require schools to put certain content into their programs. It is up to the schools how they structure their classes.

[llg, PhD, RN]

If a reputable school is going to give you a diploma with their name on it, they want you to have taken most of your nursing courses at their school. That's to assure that you have met that school's standards and also to assured that you have paid your money to their school and not some other school. It's how schools protect both their financial foundation and their reputations.

If that weren't the case ... if you could actually attend one school for most of your education, but graduate from another school ... then just about everyone would be trying to transfer to a more prestigious school in their senior year and a school's reputation would mean nothing.

As for the ATI exams ... not all schools use them in the same way. But most schools have some sort of criteria for passing a course and progressing to the next phase/level of the program. If you don't pass, you have to wait until the next session to re-enroll and that delays your progress. Years ago, when I was an undergraduate, my school's classes were only taught once per year. If you failed, you had to wait a full year to repeat the course.

[TheDudeWithTheBigDog, ADN, RN]

EVERY college has a minimum number of credits you have to take at that school, in your major, to graduate.

Onto the accreditation. No matter what your major is, almost no college is going to accept transfer credits from a school that is not regionally accredited. As a student, when it comes to wanting to transfer and move onto higher degrees, that's the accreditation that matters. Regional accreditation > everything. And if they do, it's typically only general education classes like math and english. But if when you said nationally accredited you meant CCNE or ACEN, they have a requirement of being regionally accredited, so a school can take credits if they're willing to.

BUT, if a school is willing to take you, there's a chance you'd have to start from pretty much the beginning and the classes might not be elligible for financial aide since you're repeating them.