12-14-2016, 08:15 PM
Here's the thing, I lack a great deal of hospital experience to make Excelsior look like a legit College if that makes sense. I should have not have gone this route for my initial ADN. It's not respected in my area and I've been passed over for several jobs because of my lack of clinical experience, both from school and real life as an LPN.
Ferris State also has two accreditations nlnac and ccne, where most of the competency based programs are ccne only. I'm not opposed to doing a clinical experience as a bsn student either. In fact, I desperately need it! A state degree would kind of hide my initial rn licensure if that makes sense. Also, I may seek further education as a nurse practitioner and there are some concerns with some of the programs not transferring into that field, whereas a state college would guarantee placement if my GPA was adequate. That piece I haven't fully investigated, but have seen ramblings in nurse forums that is an issue for people who want to work as a mid-level provider.
IF I even get interviewed for this job, I don't have the 4000 working hours needed for my occupational authorization to teach because of having kids and working part time. I did find a loophole that they will authorize me based on my RN licensure and the hours used to obtain that. Well, my weekend of clinical competency as horrible as it was, does not come close to the amount of clinical hours traditional ADN students used. My hope is I can spin my LPN hours if they get picky about verification.
It just wasn't the right route for me to go. For LPN's rocking it out in acute care and even long term care, yes, absolutely it makes sense. For me, I had a few years of long term care and working as a paraprofessional at a vocational high school. I taught entry level health care and very basic skills. I tried to get into bridge programs locally and they were all full, so that EC was my easy/not so easy fix. I could not get hired to save my life in 2009/2010 between the economy and EC degree. The job postings literally listed they wanted candidates with x hours of clinical time or bsn's only - I was screwed!
Hopefully my rambling makes sense.. I haven't ruled out anything yet and if I by chance get this job, I will look to them to see what they would prefer, which will probably be a CTE teaching degree from
Ferris and I'll have to double major and in that case, I would lean more toward competency based BSN. But logically a BSN from a state college may protect me from heart break again.
Ferris State also has two accreditations nlnac and ccne, where most of the competency based programs are ccne only. I'm not opposed to doing a clinical experience as a bsn student either. In fact, I desperately need it! A state degree would kind of hide my initial rn licensure if that makes sense. Also, I may seek further education as a nurse practitioner and there are some concerns with some of the programs not transferring into that field, whereas a state college would guarantee placement if my GPA was adequate. That piece I haven't fully investigated, but have seen ramblings in nurse forums that is an issue for people who want to work as a mid-level provider.
IF I even get interviewed for this job, I don't have the 4000 working hours needed for my occupational authorization to teach because of having kids and working part time. I did find a loophole that they will authorize me based on my RN licensure and the hours used to obtain that. Well, my weekend of clinical competency as horrible as it was, does not come close to the amount of clinical hours traditional ADN students used. My hope is I can spin my LPN hours if they get picky about verification.
It just wasn't the right route for me to go. For LPN's rocking it out in acute care and even long term care, yes, absolutely it makes sense. For me, I had a few years of long term care and working as a paraprofessional at a vocational high school. I taught entry level health care and very basic skills. I tried to get into bridge programs locally and they were all full, so that EC was my easy/not so easy fix. I could not get hired to save my life in 2009/2010 between the economy and EC degree. The job postings literally listed they wanted candidates with x hours of clinical time or bsn's only - I was screwed!
Hopefully my rambling makes sense.. I haven't ruled out anything yet and if I by chance get this job, I will look to them to see what they would prefer, which will probably be a CTE teaching degree from
Ferris and I'll have to double major and in that case, I would lean more toward competency based BSN. But logically a BSN from a state college may protect me from heart break again.
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