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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Nursing  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright In case it isn't painfully obvious from all the comments posted here, let me put my 2 cents in: Belmont University, and especially the nursing program, just plain sucks. There is no other way to put it, crass comment or not. To say anything else would be to lie. It addition to getting screwed over by Belmont's personalized grading scale, in addition to being treated to Bible-pounding, arm-raising sky pilots who see Jesus in plates of spaghetti and bowls of their Capn' Crunch cereal (True bit about Belmont: Teachers lead classes in prayer. Not religion classes, but, like, REGULAR classes), Belmont's Nursing "program" is the biggest ripoff in college history. The program is essentially entirely book-based. There is practically no useful clinical skills taught at all--our SENIOR class is still making patient beds, giving baths, and wiping ass to meet the state-mandated clinical requirement hours. The other post is accurate--no one knows how to actually start an IV or do a foley on a real person. Belmont lets the hospitals use students however the hospitals want to, so your clinical "learning experience" where you are supposedly learning actual skills required not to kill someone when you are a working RN is really spent as free labor for the hospital. So come to Belmont, enroll in their $45,000 BSN plan, and in just 4 years they will teach you how to make a bed or wipe someone's ass. It's well worth the time and money and your future employer will be amazed at how tight your hospital corners are...and also at how pathetically inept you are as a nurse. If they were honest about it, Belmont's School of Nursing's moto would be: Belmont Nursing--Theoretical Nursing In A Practical World. Go to Vandy and get a real education, and don't waste your time or money at this poor excuse of a school. Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Aug 05 2008 3rd Year Female -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=53314&uid=1279'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Nursing  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright DOn't want to appear as though this is just piling on, but in addition to what others have posted, which I can say is all true and I agree with, male nursing students are also discriminated against at Belmont. Maybe it's just a coincidence that the entire nursing staff, from the Dean of Nursing on down to the secretarial support staff (including every single professor) are all females, but I doubt that has nothing to do with the attitude toward the guys. Example? Several guys were recently told that even though visual inspection of the peritoneum was an important and routine part of postpartum care for the patient who just completed a vaginal delivery, they were not to do this. This wasn't like, if the female patient doesn't want you to do this you don't. It was, "you will not be doing this." But as female nursing students, no one has ever said you can't do anything related to male genitalia. Guess it's just assumed with the guys that they are all pervs who can't provide professional care to female patients. And I guess because they are not going to be allowed to do anything with female patients, they in fact will not be able to provide professional care. While this doesn't impact most of the students (who are female), it's another example of what the Belmont nursing program is like and also serves as a picture of the people who run it. This reflects poorly on this program whatever sex you are, that close-minded 1930s thinking predominates over teaching and learning and doing what is in the best interest of the patient. Female or male, you could do better by going somewhere else. Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jul 17 2008 3rd Year Female -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=52893&uid=1279'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Nursing  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Not so bright Don't let the look fool you. This place is a joke. Too bad the education you get isn't half as good as the flower gardens and new buildings on campus are. We're seniors and no one in our class, NO ONE, can even start an IV on an actual human. And no one has placed a Foley or even given an IM injection yet. The truth is we're not even qualified to work in a doctor's office, let alone a hospital. And then half the faculty walk around here like this place is the envy of all other nursing schools. It's pathetic. Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jul 17 2008 4th Year Female -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=52829&uid=1279'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Nursing  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright With seemingly everyone going into nursing these days, just a note to those considering Belmont University in Nashville, TN. DON'T GO THERE. ...Unless you want to look worse by comparison to graduates from other schools, that is. What you won't find on the website, or in the pamphlets, or hear about on the tour is that Belmont's School of Nursing has seen fit to reinvent the grading scale (apparently the one one used by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins just isn't quite good enough for the delusional egos at this school). This is something you will find out if you go there (or were fortunate enough to read it here first and decide wisely to go anywhere else). You see, a 93% at Belmont is not an A. Neither is a 94%. That's right, no lie. While grads from other programs will be sending out resumes and filling out grad school and scholarship application forms with their GPA 4.0 emblazoned on it, you can put your 3.80 or 3.85 on yours (and have the satisfaction of knowing it WOULD have been a 4.0 if you'd only gone to any other school in the country). Maybe you can even put that on the scholarship forms; surely the scholarship committee members will just take your word for it. If this isn't reason enough to deter to you from attending this academic blackhole, consider the "thinking" that goes on in a place where the idea of standardized comparison is either too difficult to grasp for those doing the "thinking," or the collective egos at work override not only what would be fair to the students who pay money to attend Belmont (poor saps), but would also be good for the school. See, apparently the powers-that-be haven't figured out (or simply don't care) that if each school customized its own grading scale, making comparisons between students from different schools becomes quite impossible and the idea of grades themselves quite pointless. Not unlike if each state decided that a US dollar wasn't really a dollar but was $.70 in TN and $1.87 in KY. Kinda blows up the whole idea of what a dollar really is, no? So consider what you're getting into if you're thinking about going to this dump. Campus Aesthetics: A+, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jul 16 2008 3rd Year Female -- Class 2008    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=52823&uid=1279'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save      Prev    Select Page:  1  2  3  4  5  6    Next

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