[idontno]

I live near dayton OH and have recently graduated high school, I origionally wanted to go to RETS but when I told anyone they said it would be a bad decsion since its too expensive, which i thought it would pay off since no waiting list and would have a LPN in only a year. And than everyone told me that it was a bad school, and they rip you off and such. but i just wanna know if it is such a bad school from people who attend or recently attended. One of the LPN's at my work told me she went there and it wasnt that bad every school has their problems and its very hectic anywhere you go.

my next favroite option would be sinclair, because it is cheap but their wating list is so long. i have heard it is the best nursing schools in the area excluding wright state. if i went there i would get my ADN, is the wait worth it. how long is the waiting list. What do nursing students there or people who have recently graduated from there think.

does anyone want to share what they think? and thank-you for any advice

[Daytonite]

Hi, kiddo. I used to live in Dayton--see my name? I went to the new RETS center over in Centerville to study Coding after it first opened. You have to understand that the reason people say nasty things about vocational schools like this is because they are privately owned by individuals. On our first day of classes, the owners of RETS spoke to all of us students and then we had a pizza party. They were always feeding us at special occasions. I never saw Cleveland State doing that when I went there. Anyway, the person who taught our A&P at night had a Master's degree in something or other (can't remember) and during the day, it was a chiropractor who had a doctorate. Every one of the teachers wanted to teach. For many it was a second job. What some may have objected to were the rules. From the first day, the students were told that they were to dress appropriately--as if they were going to work. The school, we were told, was preparing them for employment and part of this meant dressing and acting like employees. That included attending class. Some young people still thought school was a joke. Those are probably the disgruntled people telling you this is a bad school. RETS helps their graduates find jobs. I had no difficulty getting a job after graduating from their program, but I did have to put in some effort to look for it. Any private school is going to be expensive. You think about your commitment to studying and learning your new profession as you lay down the money for your new semester's tuition.

Sinclair has it's problems. My niece is currently in one of their healthcare programs and has been having trouble getting into one of the classes she needs to finish up. I'm not clear what the hold up is. She claims it's a nasty instructor and a waiting list. She says the nursing program has the same problems, but I really couldn't say.

I didn't go to nursing school in that area. I went to school here in California originally. I did, however, work at MVH as well as several nursing homes in the area. Many of the nurses loved the program at Kettering Hospital. It is owned and affiliated with several hospitals and schools owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church. They own a huge medical center and nursing school out here in Southern California. Why don't you look into it? It's one of the last hospital-based nursing programs still in existence, but you have to take some pre-requisite courses at a community college and you do earn a associate degree when you complete their program. Another alternative, and possibly just as inexpensive, would be to check out the BSN programs at Wright State which is in Dayton and Cincinnati State which isn't that far away. MVH was very selective when I was living there and was only hiring BSNs. Have you looked into what is going on in Springfield or Columbus?

I don't believe that there is a "best" nursing school. They all must be approved to operate by the state board of nursing. Nursing school is what you make of it. After you graduate and get one or two years of nursing experience, no one gives a hoot about where you went to school--not in this country. I know, I was a manager who interviewed and hired nurses. That "what school did you come from" mentality died a long time ago, if it ever even existed, in this country.