University of Virginia?

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Hi there! I'm meeting my midlife crisis head-on by contemplating a 2nd degree BSN and a return to my lovely native state.

What do you all hear about UVA? Good/bad program, clinicals, classes? Impossible to get into? NCLEX pass rate? Is VCU's program better?

Any info will be appreciated.

Jeannie

ON the flip side of this discussion, I have known several UVA graduates who are nurses. They all had HUGE egos, and thought that because they graduated from UVA that they were the best nurses ever. However, when it came to floor work, ADN grads were running circles around them, and often had more book knowledge, too. I'm not saying this about all UVA grad, of course, but the ones I have known are this way.

Also, I know 2 UVA grads who took the NCLEX 5 times before they passed. My school had a 99% pass rate for several years running.

Personally, I wouldn't want to go to a school that has less than a 95% pass rate for NCLEX. I would feel like I had wasted my $$.

Also, I did have an instructor who graduated from UVA, and she was great. Absolutely great. She was a masters prepared nurse, of course.

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