What is nursing school?

Will it matter what nursing school you draduate from?

• Will it matter what nursing school you graduate from? So I'm thinking about switching my major to nursing. Since I need money ASAP to actually start working Im looking into the ADN program at a college. But the university offers a bachelor degree. After many talks with the fellow nursing students at the local college I have been told that the nursing program at the local college is better than the university program due to many great reasons. But the question is will it matter what school I graduate from once I finish my nursing school? Will you get paid more at a university or a more well known university??

• Answer:

  Typically with a general nursing degree the answer is no. It is usually only those who want to be specialists or surgeons in a hospital who need to worry about the particular school they attend. However, people who attend nursing schools that require at least one year of a hospital internship prior to graduating tend to have an easier time getting into a good hospital once they graduate. My sister-in-law went to a nursing school that isn't very well known. But since she did an 18 month internship which gave her a good deal of experience in hospitals, she very quickly got a job as a nurse at one of the best hospitals in the state. Best of luck.