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Do hospital-based nursing schools still exist?

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Char_syringe_max50

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Posted almost 6 years ago

 

I've had a few questions on this topic lately. Has anyone been through one? If they do exist, where can they be found?

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Rate This | Posted almost 6 years ago

 

I know we have one here in Orlando. It's at the Florida South Campus of Adventist Health care. They award degrees up to the BSN level and have tuition breaks for employees. The couple RN's I know that went there did so as LPN's with a guarenteed job upon completion.

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Rate This | Posted almost 6 years ago

 

I spoke to my mother, an Advanced Practice Nurse about it, and she said that hospital-based nursing education used to be the norm. She would be referencing the mid-1970s, of course. I'm interested in the history here - when did these programs start going away? What were the factors? Will they ever be back again?

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Rate This | Posted almost 6 years ago

 

There is one in Oak Park, IL which is a suburb of Chicago. It is called West Suburban College of Nursing and is affiliated with Ressurection Healthcare Network. They are a big employer in the Chicagoland area and offer a discount for employees so it makes going back to school for a BSN or masters an easier transition

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Rate This | Posted almost 6 years ago

 

I graduated from what was then Lutheran Medical Center School of Nursing in the 80"s. I think it still exists and gives college credit from a local university.

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Rate This | Posted almost 6 years ago

 

There is only one hospital based school in Maine at Central Maine Medical Center. The caveat is you have to take some courses at the University of Maine in Lewiston to get your ADN. the good news is that you only have tow more year to take to get your BSN. When the push in the eighties for more degree nurses started and the push to have all RN's in hospital nursing is when hospitals here started shutting down. Ironic though. they wanted more RN's but they stopped teaching them.

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Rate This | Posted over 5 years ago

 

I think there are a couple in the Cincinnati are at Christ Hospital, Good Sams and Bethsda Hospital.

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Rate This | Posted over 5 years ago

 

There is a new Hospital based RN program in Philadelphia, Pa. St. Joseph Hopsital School of Nursing. It reopened in 2007. The first class graduated this past November. I am in the second class, and will graduate in November 2008. The program is full-time days. The greatest part of the program is that it is only one year!!!!!!

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Rate This | Posted over 5 years ago

 

I live in PA and near Pittsburgh the majority of the nursing schools are hospital based. I had applied to a hospital based program in Johnstown PA but decided to go to a college instead. The hospital based programs are more affordable which is a plus but when you graduate you leave with a diploma instead of a degree.