Will I be able to get a hospital job with BSN from WGU? Will they look at it different?

Hi all. I'm interested in doing the RN-BSN program. I'm worried that a hospital will not want to hire me with a BSN from wgu since it's all online. There isn't even a clinical component right? Just curious.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

Yes, WGU is CCNE accredited. CCNE is not "national accreditation." National accreditation refers to DEAC (formerly DETC), ACICS, and ACCSC. WGU used to be DETC accredited, but they let their national accreditation run out in 2013 or so. National accreditation is widely viewed as substandard, so they no longer needed national accreditation once they became regionally accredited. Check your fact

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CCNE is considered a national accreditation.

[RNRy]

CCNE is considered a national accreditation.

Research more about national accreditation vs. regional accreditation and perhaps you will see my original point. When referring to a college as a whole, you can't say the university is nationally accredited because they bear CCNE accreditation. However, I guess you could say the nursing program is nationally accredited since it is accredited by CCNE. Regardless, WGU has the highest forms of accreditation that nurses should be concerned with (NWCCU and CCNE). Go WGU!

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[klone, MSN, RN]

When referring to a college as a whole, you can't say the university is nationally accredited because they bear CCNE accreditation. However, I guess you could say the nursing program is nationally accredited since it is accredited by CCNE.

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Yes, that's exactly what we are saying. Because we're talking here, in this thread, about the nursing program, we are referring to national accreditation of the NURSING PROGRAM.

I have no idea about the accreditation of their other programs, because I don't care about their other programs. When one refers to national accreditation in the context of nursing programs, we're specifically referring to CCNE or ACEN.

[Murse901, MSN, RN]

I'm not sure what all the fuss is here, but CCNE is not "national accreditation" in the context of regional versus national accreditation for a college or university. When we talk about RA versus NA, we are talking about the accreditation of the entire college or university, not an individual program within the college or university. CCNE is a national accreditation, in that it is not geographically limited, but CCNE does not accredit the entire college or university -- only a nursing program. For more information about RA versus NA, read this.

There should be no discussion of regional versus national accreditation for specific nursing programs, because there is no such animal as regional accreditation for nursing programs.

I think that RNRy is unnecessarily taking flak because of the wording of their initial post, as the first sentence ("WGU is no longer nationally accredited") seemed to be disparaging -- which it was not. In the same post, clarification was correctly given that RA accreditation is superior to NA accreditation.

In other words, chill out. There is no need to defend WGU's status here.

[nsue]

They are CCNE accredited!

[RNRy]

They are CCNE accredited!

Absolutely they are.

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[Nyxnut]

RNRy said:

WGU is no longer nationally accredited. They did not renew their national accreditation after they obtained regional accreditation. However, there was no need to since regional accreditation is superior.

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Why is regional accreditation considered superior? I'm not trying to argue I'm just curious on what's the difference? Isn't national accreditation better?