Great info and exactly the type of stuff I was looking for when creating this thread.
In that case you might want to add Duquesne University to your list. They also admit nursing students (and all health profession majors including Pharmacy, PT, and others) as freshmen. It is in a city and is Catholic. It is not on the Cardinal Newman Guide but does have a healthy Mass/confession/ministry schedule.
No and they weren’t axed. We simply started a search based on top nursing programs and then worked from there based on feedback and other info we found.
I can only imagine. My friends and I are in the throws of college admissions with our kids. I know that some places have a few spots for direct admissions (for certain majors) and some spots are not direct admissions. Then there are direct admissions but a GPA must be kept up (probably pretty common). It’s enough to make your head spin! Good luck!
It’s a good school no doubt for academics, but don’t read too much into academics. My department chair recently noted that it’s administrators and I happen to know donations that add to that.
Maybe not according to what one of my old priests said.
It’s good to see you understand the nature of many colleges is hostility towards Catholic values.
Well, just keep in mind that just because something carries the Catholic label, doesn’t mean it is really Catholic.
My father graduated from Duquesne in the early '50s, and I had a few friends go there and I know good people who work/worked there. My daughter really wanted to go there. She was accepted. However, the financial aid package was rotten, and that dropped it right off the list.
If only we had a peek into the future we could tell if it were going to be worth the price. I know students who chose lower cost schools and weren’t taken care of. Extra classes, extra years, and not being accepted into their majors ate up the difference in price. Of course others go to lower cost schools and do fine. I guess it all depends on the student and what he or she can handle.
Any particular reason she couldn’t get her associates (RN) at a community college, then transfer to a BSN program? She’d save a truckload of money. You mention the specific nature of the program she wants, can you expand on that?
RN and BSN start at the same salary? For real?Any particular reason she couldn’t get her associates (RN) at a community college, then transfer to a BSN program? She’d save a truckload of money. You mention the specific nature of the program she wants, can you expand on that?
Tuition reimbursement may be available, but she’ll need a job as a CNA first to qualify (assuming your talking about reimbursement through a job at a hospital). This also requires that she work at that hospital for a set time after taking reimbursement.
I’ll be honest, that reimbursement isn’t going to even put a dent in the 48k/year tuition cost for Villanova…I mean that’s like 200k in debt after four years. That’s huge amount of debt considering a BSN doesn’t usually equal a pay increase over an RN, and starting pay, depending on shift, is equivalent to about 40k per year (at least in Iowa).
Source: My fiance is an RN, recent graduate from a community college in our area and currently enrolled in an online RN to BSN program. Oh yeah, and my hours helping her do her FAFSA and studying for the NCLEX
I suggested that to her but she wants to be a nurse practitioner that works in pediatric critical or emergency care. Right now she volunteers at the local Children’s Hospital in the Emergency Room for 3 hours every Saturday and has experienced some intense stuff for a high schooler. My take is that she knows what she wants and has first hand experience of what’s it is like so leaving all of that in her court.
No pay increase if you’re a floor nurse at a hospital (at least in Iowa). What’s worse is many hospitals want BSNs for floor nurse positions, versus just an RN. You may be able to get some sort of management position, but that could be a stretch. My fiance’s boss on her ortho floor has an MSN (masters in nursing).