<p>Not too sure on whose part, though...</p>
<p>What about Rutgers College of Nursing and what other schools do have strong Nursing program? I have 1160 SAT(VERBAL+MATH) with above 3.9GPA</p>
<p>"lol... where's TourGuide with another witty Northeastern / Northwestern joke when you need one?"</p>
<p>I think that Tourguide is confusing Northeastern in Boston with Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. They are quite different. Northeastern in Boston has one of the top nursing programs in New England.</p>
<p>I'd say the set is solid.</p>
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<p>Actually, if I recall correctly, TourGuide is a graduate of Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.</p>
<p>I heard he was particularly drawn to the university's charasmatic and influential patron, the Manchurian Warlord and Chinese Republican General, Marshall Chang Hsüeh-liang, regarded by the People's Republic of China as a patriotic hero - though the Japanese believed Chang to be a womanizer and an opium addict.</p>
<p>Boston College and Boston University are both proud of their nursing schools. Case Northwestern Reserve U. is supposed to be good too.</p>
<p>Is there any specific acceptance data for nursing schools - ie. SAT scores, GPAs, etc.? Most schools list a profile for their entering class but don't break it down by college.</p>
<p>With all the gender neutralizing and social engineering in the last 40 years, isn't it amazing how nursing field is still dominated by women? And probably a sizable % of male nurses are ex-military "medics" and "hospital corpsmen" who are just making the most of their military training. What % of males in the nursing profession are guys who just went from high school to college to study nursing? Is it time we changed the name of this noble profession to something that is NOT synonomous with breast feeding?</p>
<p>I think that's correct. Tourguide, however, was first a pilot in the Chinese Air Company flying C-47s over the Hump. It was here that he eventually was shot down and was rescued by my father, who was an Infantry officer under General Stilwell in the China-Burma-India theater of WWII.</p>
<p>Tourguide was wounded slightly and taken to a Missionary Hospital in Kunming. After recovery, he was transported overland to Hanoi and was subsequently captured by Chinese Communists. Tourguide was enroute to Communist held areas of China when his hosts were attacked by Chinese bandits under a local warlord. Ever resourceful, Tourguide survived the attack and managed to have himself sold into slavery to a local fishwife (he will never eat fishhead soup again).</p>
<p>Turns out the fishwife was also the local midwife for the village. Tourguide's scant medical training here came into play; but mostly it was his small first-aid kit that played to his advantage, which he'd hidden from his captors.</p>
<p>Did you guys answer my questions? You guys seem very interesting about
TourGuide. In addition, what is difference between Nursing(Praticioner) and Nursing(RN)? and Which one is better and why are the things?</p>
<p>Yep. I answered you - look at FSU (and the others). It does very well in the areas you want.</p>
<p>Did I mention TourGuide later married the fishwife? Turns out she was a widow. Her first two husbands died of food poisoning, oddly enough. See, TourGuide is part Seminole Indian, part German-Scotch-Irish and the rest African-American. The fishwife was enraptured by his green eyes and his ability to live off the land...</p>
<p>A Nurse Practitioner is much like a medical doctor; except for certain highly skilled tasks only a doctor can perform. A Registered Nurse is a board-certified, licensed nurse that is the top skill level for the nursing career, excepting the NP.</p>
<p>You need to be an RN before you can enter a Master's program to prepare to become an NP. You can also continue on to obtain Advanced Practice in a Specialty(APS) in a Master's program, or become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)post-baccalaureate.</p>
<p>U Penn has one of the strongest Nursing programs.</p>
<p>After being corrected by my BS RN wife, (my shin still hurts) the BS RN is the basic step to any of the specialty Nursing areas.</p>
<p>There are 2 basic ways on becoming an RN. One can attend a community college and obtain an associate degree in nursing. The other option it to attend a 4 yr college/university for a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). Either way,you are qualified to sit for your state board exams to become licensed to practice as an RN.<br>
So why obtain a BSN? Well, it allows for far more career opportunities. Even if you don't want to pursue a Masters degree, many advanced jobs such as head nurse, superivisor, etc, require a BSN. Some states require school nurses to have a BSN.<br>
Many Masters programs have options available for those with an associate degree to pursue a combined BSN/MSN degree. No matter what, you need that bachelors degree to go on for an MSN. There are multiple "majors" to pursue in you graduate study. These include Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Certified Nurse Midwife, Nursing Administration, Nursing Education, and Nurse Practitioner (which is further subdivided into womens health, adult health, family health, psychiatric, acute care, and pediatrics). I am not even going to go on and talk about PhD in Nursing or Nursing Doctorates!
As far as how much experience you need as an RN to go onto graduate school, it depends on the school. Some will take you without experience, others require a couple years. Personally, I think it helps to have a few years under your belt before going for your MSN, but that is only my opinion. </p>
<p>An important thing for you to look at when assessing a BSN program is the amount and type of clinical experience you will get. Some programs start freshman year (CWRU comes to mind) and others wait till Jr. year. The more clinical experience you can get, go for it. Also look at their state board examination passing rates. You should be able to go to the state board nursing web site and look up the passing rate for each school in that state. If they have a low pass rate - I'd think twice about going there.</p>
<p>^Ah, I was going to say all that, but mom2boys beat me to it. And I really do have the most amazing green eyes. But my idea of living off the land is picking up a bunch of beer bottles along the highway, returning them for the deposit, and buying myself a Quarter Pounder with cheese.</p>
<p>Also, isn't there a third way to become an RN? Aren't there nursing-only schools that are neither 2-year colleges nor 4-year colleges? At least I HOPE there are such schools...my (late) mother claimed to have become a nurse via that route, and I'd hate to think I was duped TWICE in my life by faux nurses.</p>
<p>I am sure your mother didn't dupe you. In fact, I am sure she was telling you the truth. Yes, there was (is?) a third way. A long, long time ago, there was such a thing as diploma schools. These were 3 yr programs that were run by a hospital, not a college. Often the students lived in dorms attached to the hospital. In addition to their classroom clinical experience, many of the students often worked during their off hours at the hospital too. I can remember doing my clinical rotations (as part of a BSN program) and going through an old nursing dorm which had been converted into an administration building. They actually had sitting areas on the first floor for the students to entertain company, and these areas were completely visible to the chaperone that was on duty in the evening. No hanky-panky allowed!</p>
<p>I think the diploma schools are pretty much non-existant now. Maybe there are a few still around in the country, but I haven't seen one in many years. They were expensive for the hospitals to run and as the nursing profession expanded and more career options became available, the lack of a college degree from a diploma school was a real drawback. There are still nurses in practice today that are graduates from diploma schools though. I've worked with a few and they were good nurses.</p>