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HACC Nursing Program: Anyone know anything about this?
I am interested in going back to school to be a nurse. I know that HACC has a great reputation for producing great nurses. However, I was reading some negative comments online that it is impossible difficult and only 20% of thoses that start finish and that people are "forced out of the program for stupid reasons". To me, it sounded like the commenter was a bitter-drop out, but I was wondering if anyone else heard this. I am a place in my life where I don't have the luxury to fail.
Re: HACC Nursing Program: Anyone know anything about this?
I'm a nurse and many of my co-workers went to HACC. Several of our nursing assistants are also currently enrolled in HACC's nursing program. One has just this last semester left and another girl has a year until she finishes.
I've heard mixed reviews about HACC. I hear it's hard to get into clinicals at HACC. But if you do well with your gen ed classes you shouldn't have too much trouble getting into clinicals. You may have a bit of a wait, though. I think enrollment @ HACC is very high and so there may be waiting lists.
I will say that you may want to think about getting a bachelor's in nursing if you ever want to go into nursing management, nursing education, nurse practitioner, etc. Those all require a bachelor's and master's degree. Not sure what your career goal is. If you want to be a bedside nurse for your entire career, then an associate's should be fine. I have my bachelor's and hope to return to school for my master's so I can become a nurse practitioner. I don't want to be a bedside nurse forever.
Good luck!
The majority of the folks in my classes were either there for nursing or for teaching when I went to HACC. You have to maintain a certain grade/GPA as well which is understandable. of course the higher to rank in your class, the easier it is to get into clinicals. Yes, there is a waiting list like the pp mentioned so some students just end up transferring to LGH and finishing out there. Now I'm speaking about the Lancaster campus, I'm not sure about the other campuses. I also found that a good portion of the nursing students were older, as in not the newbie student. many had families and were embarking on a new career.
As for the bad comment you read, i agree it was probably from someone who couldn't hack it. I often would hear students having problems getting the grade they needed depending on the professor. I think the worst one was in bio/ anatomy.
I was not a nursing student myself, but a lot of my friends were. They all graduated, went on to clinicals or transferred right into a hospital to finish. HACC nursing students have a great placement rate.
Competition is stiff.
http://hacc.edu/HealthCareers/AdmissionCriteria/upload/Profile.pdf