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Is it better to go to 2 year college or 4 year college for nursing program? anyone has any idea, help pls?


which option is better,any benefit for going to the other. which one is more advisable

My sister went to a nursing school: that was all they taught, in conjunction with the masonic hospital in Chicago. It was a three year program, less if you went to summer school. She graduated and passed the RN exam right away and went to work.

Then she decided to finish her bachelor's in nursing. Since she had all of the nursing stuff done, she had to do the general ed. She did it at the local Nazarene university, and hated it - she had to take all sorts of unneeded stuff, including the religion requirements. But she managed to finish, and was reimbursed for a great deal of the expense by her job.

She bounced around a few hospitals for a few years, and then ended up at Rush in Chicago - and took the opportunity to go back and work on a graduate degree in anesthesiology. Again, since she was working at a teaching hospital, she could work and be reimbursed for the coursework.

I view this as the best way to go to school - let your employer pay for your further education. Get the basic degree, put your foot in the door, and then move up the ladder at the employer's expense. This works if you want to stay in the medical side, or want to move into administration eventually.

Either one is good. If you're strapped for cash then the 2yr if not go ahead for the 4yr. with a 4yr general study courses get in the way too much but not as much as a 2yr- I transferred from a 4yr to a 2yr.

go to the 4 year! you will end up with better money in the long run and better options than just working the floor such as being able to teach and better equipped to work on your masters.

I'd go with the 4-year. My mom is a registered nurse (retired now, actually). About 10 years ago the hospital she works for decided that all nurses needed to get their master's degrees. All of them, regardless of how long they had been at the hospital. It was ridiculous, and they eventually decided that nurses that had been there a long time (like my mom) didn't have to get a master's degree, but her colleagues who only had 2-year degrees still had to get their bachelor's degree. So that's why I would recommend going to a 4-year college (you could start at a 2-year college and then transfer, if you wanted).

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