California College for Health Sciences offers nursing degrees by Distance Study.(B.S.N, M.S.N).They are not accredited by the 2 organisations that accredit nursing programs and lacks regional accreditation. http://www.nlnac.org/ http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Accreditation/ It appears that CCHS nursing graduates would not be eligible to take specialty certifications offered by the ANCC. http://www.nursingworld.org/ancc/certification/cert/certsteps.html "You must meet all of the requirements listed in order to take an examination " "Academic degrees must have been awarded from an institution of higher learning accredited by a nationally recognized regional accrediting body." Do these degrees have any acceptance in hospitals/educational instititutions? I would think the lack of recognition from the above-even with a worthwhile course content and DETC accreditation-would make these degrees not very useful for RNS to use for advancement. Thanks for any responses.
Hi, Am busy with school (CCHS) projects but saw this and wanted to respond. I cannot personally answer your questions. I would check with some local hospitals and the NLNAC and the AACN as well as calling CCHS for this information. CCHS grads work in all areas of health care in all types of health care facilities. The nursing programs have just recently been added to the CCHS cirriculum so acceptance of a nursing degree for employment purposes may be limited. Home nursing or private duty nursing may see more utility. I enrolled in CCHS for three basic reasons. First, I wanted an accredited graduate degree, second, I wanted to learn about health care issues in conjunction with mental health issues, and third, the low cost. Other than this, I cannot really tell you much else with the exception I do know CCHS helps hospitals establish their own Center of Career Advancement at no cost.
Hi Laferney: Your reservations may be well founded, unless, of course, you wanted to combine a previous millish doctorate with a sig line from what sounds like a med school, in order to...well, you get the idea. If deception by default does not appeal to you, then the utility of CCHS (which may on its own merits be an OK school) may be more limited than you would wish.
Acceptability of a nursing degree at my hospital must meet the minimum threshold of being from a regionally accredited school and be accredited by either the CCNE or NLN, so this program would not help me climb any ladders. I'd probably get in trouble if I tried to even use it somehow in the hospital. Of course I work at the university hospital so maybe it would be different in a private hospital.
This seems to be the problem with some NA degrees: limited utility. Good luck in your educational endeavors.
CCHS very slow CCHS is very slow about returning your graded projects. By the time you receive your degree, you will be ready to retire from nursing. I withdrew from the school because they did not meet my expectations and were extremely slow to respond. My friend is in Excelsior's program, which is accepted at CSUDH if you want to advance to NP.
I am an RN and it seems to me that if it is not NLN accredited then it is of little worth. There are any number of RA, NLN accredited BS and MSN programs for RNs. (ASN [or ADN] nurses frequently want to go on to BSN or MSN for professional reasons, salary is seldom different for a floor nurse with an ASN or BSN). I would go for a NLN program before I took a free non-NLN program (not that there are any free ones but you get the idea).
