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Yet another DSN thread

For those who have graduated from DSN or are currently enrolled, where were/are your clinical sites? Thanks in advance!

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There is so much variety, I am not sure how meaningful your answers will be unless you have many answers. Also, sites change over time. For me (2013-2015).

Med-Surg I: Avamere in Northglenn

Med-Surg II: Presbyterian/St. Lukes Med Center

Mental Health: Cedar Springs Hospital

O/B: Good Samaritan Medical Center

Pediatrics: Schools around the Metro (to be fair, I told DSN I was not interested in being a pediatric nurse. Some people had clinicals at Children's Hospital

Leadership and Community Heath: GHP internship to remote fishing villages in the Philippines!

Capstone: Valley View Hospital (Glenwood Springs, CO) in the CCU

Good luck!

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There is so much variety, I am not sure how meaningful your answers will be unless you have many answers. Also, sites change over time. For me (2013-2015).

Med-Surg I: Avamere in Northglenn

Med-Surg II: Presbyterian/St. Lukes Med Center

Mental Health: Cedar Springs Hospital

O/B: Good Samaritan Medical Center

Pediatrics: Schools around the Metro (to be fair, I told DSN I was not interested in being a pediatric nurse. Some people had clinicals at Children's Hospital

Leadership and Community Heath: GHP internship to remote fishing villages in the Philippines!

Capstone: Valley View Hospital (Glenwood Springs, CO) in the CCU

Good luck!

Thanks for the input! I was definitely hoping for a quite a few answers :)

I graduated at the end of 2013

MedSurgI was at a Lifecare Center

MedSurg II Sky Ridge

Mental Health: Sierra

O/B: St. Anthony - North

Peds: Denver Health

Leadership/Community Health: Innovage PACE clinc

Capstone: Childrens Hospital

There is so much variety, I am not sure how meaningful your answers will be unless you have many answers. Also, sites change over time. For me (2013-2015).

Med-Surg I: Avamere in Northglenn

Med-Surg II: Presbyterian/St. Lukes Med Center

Mental Health: Cedar Springs Hospital

O/B: Good Samaritan Medical Center

Pediatrics: Schools around the Metro (to be fair, I told DSN I was not interested in being a pediatric nurse. Some people had clinicals at Children's Hospital

Leadership and Community Heath: GHP internship to remote fishing villages in the Philippines!

Capstone: Valley View Hospital (Glenwood Springs, CO) in the CCU

Good luck!

I'm going to guess you took the BSN program as that since hospitals no longer really taken RN applicants, the ADN people are shuttled to nursing homes now.

I did go the BSN route but I do also know ADN nurses that work in hospitals including a friend that is a recent graduate. If you are willing to start out in a smaller, rural hospital, they are always looking for help. Just depends upon what you want to do. I would recommend just getting the BSN done.

@quetzalcoatl That's not true, most all of the hospitals in the greater Denver area do not discriminate based on program type, its more about the schools securing placements in general, what they do with them is up to the school, and I felt DSN did a fair job with that. I went to DSN, graduated ADN in July 2014, and had clinical placement in MS2 and PEDS at Denver Heath as well as a capstone there in PCU. I also had OB at Good Sam. And I work in the ER at BCH currently, and while I may not be the norm necessarily, it's totally feasible. Overall I think considering the number of students DSN handles, they do/did a pretty good job. Best of luck to all.

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