Remington College of Nursing - Orlando

OakRNland, BSN · Apr 9, 2010

Thanks for the post, good advise, and I have actually withdrawn my application from Remington, not because it's in florida, but because of the accreditation issues and being so new. I would love your list, I'll pm you for it. I'm looking into more private universities nation wide. I'm going the private university route because I really screwed up my GPA when I first started college back in 1992 to like a 2.1, but Have slowly raised it now to about a 3.2, and getting better, but is still not competitive enough to get into schools , especially state schools in California. where are you at now?

NewYorkMom · Apr 9, 2010

I have also decided not to go the route of Remington. I think it is important for a school to have all the kinks worked out before taking $36,000 and have the possibility of not having your RN at the end. Thanks for all the information. If I were 20 years younger I wouldn't even hesitate to make the jump. But school is harder now for me then when I got my BS and MA. It seems to take me a lot longer to get it done then someone a wee bit younger. But for my own satisfactions I got through 16 credits of Micro,A&P 1&2, Chem last semester.

Tina LMT · Apr 14, 2010

Hi Jen,
I want to reassure you that Lake Mary is a great place to live. I recently moved here from NYC and am loving it. I've lived in FL before, but was in NYC for the past 3 years. It's soooo cheap. I'm living in a very upscale apartment complex in a 1br apartment. It's huge (bigger than my 2br in Jersey City) and only $1200 per month which is considered expensive for the area. It's less than half the cost of my apartment in JC and there are actually amenities. If you consider the tax differences and cost of food, it's less than half the cost of living. I think there is a lot to do here and it's very safe.
My husband got a job transfer to come down here. I'm not sure what your husband is planning on doing but the job market here is awful. It's bad everywhere, but it's so much worse here than in NYC. I was hoping to find a job to fill my time until January but I've had no luck.
I'm applying to Remington for January 2011 in addition to a couple of other schools, but I'm starting to feel nervous about Remington.

I'm applying for Jan 2011 also....not too sure if I want to go here after reading this...I'm also unsure of the accredidation since their website says that they are going to be reviewed this month for it. What I love most about this school is the location. I'm in South Florida so its not that far- about 3.5 hours. I would LOVE to stay in the South (Alabama, Florida..anywhere thats hot. lol)

smiley311 · Apr 16, 2010

I called the AACN and they told me that the results of the walk thru at Remington will be decided upon at the end of April and will be posted/added to their (aacn) list of accredited colleges at the end of may (if they get accredited). Im taking my prereqs this summer and fall. Im still researching schools but i like that this one is 12 months with 2 entry points during the year. The opportunity cost of not working on top of the expenses makes 12 months look great! However, I read some very rough reviews on guidetohealthcareschools.com so that dampened my spirits. I haven't read very many blistering comments about remington here though. So that's comforting. I do hear that the curriculum is intense so I have to plan accordingly for homework time on top of campus time.

smiley311 · Apr 20, 2010

Well, Im still doing my research and called up ORMC HR dept and the HR rep has heard about Remington and as long as they are accredited they hire and offer tuition reimbursement. To my surprise, Remington doesnt do a clinical there but Im sure that's going to be a matter of time. I was also encouraged to hear that ORMC hires nurses from Pheonix and other regionally accredited private schools. Im going to place some more HR calls to other hospitals to get a feel. I hope Remington gets through the accreditation. We'll see at the end of this month.

Are any Remington graduates/current students still on this message board? Would like to know how it is going. Any replies would be appreciated. My hopes for nursing school in general are a little higher today.

rad sugar · Apr 20, 2010

Well, Im still doing my research and called up ORMC HR dept and the HR rep has heard about Remington and as long as they are accredited they hire and offer tuition reimbursement. To my surprise, Remington doesnt do a clinical there but Im sure that's going to be a matter of time. I was also encouraged to hear that ORMC hires nurses from Pheonix and other regionally accredited private schools. Im going to place some more HR calls to other hospitals to get a feel. I hope Remington gets through the accreditation. We'll see at the end of this month.
Are any Remington graduates/current students still on this message board? Would like to know how it is going. Any replies would be appreciated. My hopes for nursing school in general are a little higher today.

i'm a current student, just finished my third quarter... still waiting on grades though. i think the school will get the accreditation, i'm not worried about that honestly.

there are so many other internal problems and stressors that have caused me to regret my choice. academically, the program seems squared away... what we're learning is legit and what we should be learning. there's just a TON of BS with the scheduling, administration, attitudes, the way things are handled, the money aspect, etc. that make being a student very stressful, difficult, undesirable, etc. everyone knows nursing school is tough - and it should be - but RCON is so unorganized, petty, scrambled, and ridiculous that it makes something inherently difficult far more difficult than it needs to be.

FoxyAry07 · Apr 21, 2010

Hello. I can kick my self for not applying to the July 2010 class. I have all of the prereqs except for Micro and my science grades are good. Im aiming now for the Jan 2011 class. I too have my BS and want to get my BSN in any way possible. Lets keep our fingers crossed that the school gets its full accreditation this summer. By then everyone will be knocking down their doors.

smiley311 · Apr 25, 2010

One more quarter Rad, you can do it! Is your school schedule pretty much set or do you go to classes, clinicals and homework at night, day, weekends. What's your schedule like? I have a little one so Im trying to figure out the daycare/family care/quality time scene.

Yeah, Foxy, i still have to finish up prereqs and plan to apply next spring for June 2011 or Jan 2012 depending on how I finish up. So that fear of more competition is on my mind too. It's tough enough just getting and AS degree at the community colleges. They are all different too. Like you have to live in district or one offers entry twice a year another only once and still they choose in district. The likelihood of my acceptance to AS or BSN at public schools is pretty tough competively since I havent been in school for awhile. Chamberlain up here has BSN but it will take no less than 2.3 years totalling over $60k and that doesnt include the money loss from not working. Easily 100k. I can give up a year for $36k but 2 yrs or more is tough and I have a BA degree. I want to get my MSN in about 5-7 years too.

remingtonstudent · May 4, 2010

Hey! I prob won't log in beyond this to answer questions but I'm in my second semester now and just wanted to fill you guys in. they got their CCNE accreditation (:

pros: 12 months, accredited

cons: Attendance mandatory and you'll be sitting in the SAME classroom every bloody day for at a max of SEVEN hours. first semester is a nightmare but second semester thanks to evaluations they have toned it down a bit and we have 2, 3 hour per day classes, one 5 hour per day and get mondays off, clinical on either friday or saturday for 12 hours and one online class- nutrition (not sure how someone actually failed that one). So yes, things are improving thankfully. I don't agree with mandatory attendance but what can you do. honestly, if you have a good memory you'll be fine. if you don't... out of a class of 41 initially, one dropped out first week and 6 failed out. take it seriously when you're here from the start. pharmacology is the class that killed everyone and the same professor teaches third quarter again.

ALSO: do NOT expect to make A's like you may be used to. the nursing grading scale requires an 83+ for a B and a 92+ for an A... A's are pretty damn hard to come by. but I hear for grad schools, a 3.0 is fine alongside work experience. Hope I helped !

remingtonstudent · May 4, 2010

also the new acting dean is professor pennington who is beyond a doubt one of the best teacher's i've had and kind of makes up for a dearth of..... charisma...? otherwise.

classes at remington = torture in the form of boredom

Tina LMT · May 5, 2010

great info! Thanks. I applied to start Jan 2011. I'm wondering...If you already took Nutrition, will they transfer the credit?

rad sugar · May 5, 2010

Hey! I prob won't log in beyond this to answer questions but I'm in my second semester now and just wanted to fill you guys in. they got their CCNE accreditation (:
pros: 12 months, accredited
cons: Attendance mandatory and you'll be sitting in the SAME classroom every bloody day for at a max of SEVEN hours. first semester is a nightmare but second semester thanks to evaluations they have toned it down a bit and we have 2, 3 hour per day classes, one 5 hour per day and get mondays off, clinical on either friday or saturday for 12 hours and one online class- nutrition (not sure how someone actually failed that one). So yes, things are improving thankfully. I don't agree with mandatory attendance but what can you do. honestly, if you have a good memory you'll be fine. if you don't... out of a class of 41 initially, one dropped out first week and 6 failed out. take it seriously when you're here from the start. pharmacology is the class that killed everyone and the same professor teaches third quarter again.
ALSO: do NOT expect to make A's like you may be used to. the nursing grading scale requires an 83+ for a B and a 92+ for an A... A's are pretty damn hard to come by. but I hear for grad schools, a 3.0 is fine alongside work experience. Hope I helped !

Wow. I don't even know where to start. I am so curious to know who even had the balls to post this?

First of all, about the 7 hours - yeah, it sucks... and it gets worse. This term, Q4, we have 7 and 8 hour days back to back, with 14-hour clinical shifts on weekdays too. We'll get out of the hospital at 9pm on a Tuesday night, have HESI exams at 8:30am the next day, with class going till 5, and then an 8am -5pm lecture on Thursday, with more clinicals on Fri and Sat. So you ain't seen nothing yet.

Now, your comment about nutrition? Do you even know the student? Have you even taken an exam in that class yet? Spoken like someone truly in the first 2 weeks of a class.

The teacher that we had for nutrition is no longer an employee of the school. Her mid-term exam, although open book, took the average student 3.5 hours to take, with the window allowing for 5 hours if needed. That exam and the final were 2 of the hardest tests I've ever taken, requiring such specific answers - even if you googled and used the book - there wasn't enough time to research everything. The final had essay questions in there too.

After the mid-term, the professor admitted that there were SEVEN incorrect questions on the test, out of 100 total - and she refused to change/correct/omit them. So. That was an automatic -7 for EVERYONE who took the test. The highest you could get was a 93, unless you answered one of those 7 questions incorrectly and chose the wrong answer she had indicated on her answer key.

(this testing situation is probably a reason she is no longer school faculty).

Furthermore, there were weekly assignments that she hand graded that required research in nursing journals, APA citation and answering dozens of questions. I spent the day after Christmas doing one at my husband's house (out of state, I was traveling for the holidays) and it took me 4 hours.

We also had to write a genetics paper, that I earned a "C" on, due to APA errors. According to this professor, you aren't allowed to use italics on a Reference page. Clearly that's BS (in accordance with APA 6th edition), but it was just another symptom of the problem the school was having with this professor.

By no means was it an easy class, and now with a different teacher, I hope your experience will hardly compare to ours.

The student who "failed" nutrition did so because she didn't take the final exam. She logged on ten minutes before the online exam window ended, and wasn't allowed in. When she called the professor at 4:50pm (we had until 5pm to log in), the teacher didn't care and wouldn't grant her permission. So she received a zero for the final, making it impossible to pass the class. Was it her own fault? Yeah. But i assure you, it had NOTHING to do with intelligence. So maybe you should get your facts straight before you go off making errant comments on a public forum.

You have a totally different set of circumstances, and seeing as you aren't even 15 weeks into the program yet... I'd tread carefully when making assumptions about students who are farther in the program than you are.