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Go to ANY other college. This excuse of an institution treated me, as a student, like absolute garbage. Their staff input my courses incorrectly and created an issue with my tuition assistance from the military. They refused to help me resolve the issue in any way. I repeatedly reached out to resolve the issue and was actively ignored. Instead, they demanded money from me that was owed by the military and harassed me to drive me into compliance. To be clear, i understand how to use militsry tuition assistance... Read More and was fully in compliance with the program. This is an extremely unprofessional college.

I was initially excited about this program being it was flexible online instruction for the already working Nurse. However, one of my instructors (one that used to instruct the old CPNE's the school used to require), would fail people for very petty nick picky things that were not even part of the Rubric we were instructed to follow to a "T." We had to video ourselves completing a head to toe assessment. Shouldn't be that hard considering we are all already Nurses and do this every single day. So, I followed... Read More the Rubric which is what they stress we need to do. The Rubric states when assessing pulse make sure we verbalize the rate. The instructor counted it against me for verbalizing the rate, stating we don't check the rate when assessing a pulse??? Then we assess for sensation and if you just "touch" the fingers instead of "rubbing" your finger down theirs you also fail. The later, she will tell you that you need to assess sensation on 3 to 4 fingers instead of one???? Again, Rubric states no such thing nor did we receive any instruction to the expectations before hand. Then at the end when assessing ROM, if you do not do "active" ROM you also fail. Again the Rubric just states ROM, never specified active or passive. Guess we are supposed to read minds. She also failed me because she stated I did not assess the skin turgor in which I definitely did and even verbalized it while I was performing it, reminded her of that in an email and had her re watch my video. She admitted to her mistake, but you see my point here???? You get 2 attempts to get all 32 skills exactly the way she wants them regardless of what the Rubric says and with no prior direction of what her exact expectations are, and that is it. Then you fail the entire class. Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. This is set up to get more money out of students. This school had this very exact issue when they used to do the CPNE and there were lawsuits. They've just figured out a clever way of incorporating the same thing into a class now. I'm thankful I found out quicker than later. I still wasted about $6000 so far. Could've been way worse. Do not waste your time. What kind of Nursing program operates like this??? There is no contacts for you to contact such as department heads or anything. I have decided to go to