LPN Private Schools?

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Can someone please tell me all the private LPN schools in the Chicagoland area?

I don't want to wait a few years on a waiting list.

  • PCCTI
  • American Institute
  • J'Renee Facility
  • Northwestern Institute of Health

All accreditation and approvals for NWIHT can be found at:

LINK: http://www.nwiht.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82&Itemid=62

If it ain't there, it ain't official.

:)

Americare just got approved for their RN program. Right now they are giving priority to previous americare grads they have info sessions on the 19 and 20th of this month.

Their RN program is an LPN-to-RN Bridge. They also have a new name. They're now Ambria College of Nursing.

Their RN program is an LPN-to-RN Bridge. They also have a new name. They're now Ambria College of Nursing.

Did you wind up deciding on going to Ambria? If so, when are you starting?

Their NLN certificate of membership is posted in Nursing office in Ashland campus. I have photo in my cellphone but I couldnt upload it here. I also asked their DON if the school is already accredited by NLN and she said yes...

CMK Healthcare is charging $15,000 for the entire program which includes books. They were planning to offer the Pharmacology course at the end of the program and now decided to place it as a pre requisite. I found out that LPN programs are not required to offer pharmacology. CMK wants to make sure that their students are well verse in pharmacology so that they can be competetive in the market.

They recently dropped their prices for their pre reqs. They are licensed under ISBE to provide LPN training. Currently not accepting financial aid due to being a new program.

Other schools are charging way too much... the most important thing is you come out with the right education and proper instruction

I am planning to join their classes this january

did you end up joining the LPN program at CMK? If so, can you tell me more about it? Do they offer classes at both locations (Westmont and Glendale Heights), where are you attending clinicals (and the times you go), how difficult is the hw?

Thanks

If anybody here is still loooking around I would really reccomend j Renee. They are located in elgin now right off I90 and the building is brand new and Soo nice. Plus the school also has financial aid now and it cut down my tuition in half. I know ambria has fin. Audi but their tuition is a lot more expensive. Soo I just thought I'd let anyone looking knows! O just git in the program and start tomorrow I'm so looking forward to it!

Have a link to the J reenee website?

Jrenee.edu

You must have a really big gripe towards NWIHT. My best bet is that you're probably one of the students of the school who failed one or more of their core courses -- after pleading the instructors/school to give you a passing grade.

I have some pretty good inside scoop on the school's management organization and the caliber of their instructors/program so if you will allow me, let me provide the "real facts" about Northwestern Institute of Health and Technology (NWIHT).

Fact #1. The School's LPN program is 1100 contact hours for $16.25 per contact hour. This translates to $17,875 from Fundamentals of Nursing all the way to the NCLEX preparation. They do charge minimal registration fees per course to cover the administrative cost of scheduling. Aside from the community colleges around, please do your research and post up here who amongst the private LPN providers can beat NWIHT's very low LPN program price point. BTW, NWIHT is the only school that I know of that actually give tuition DISCOUNTS for students that fail a course but had opted to stay with their chosen program.

Fact #2. During an application interview, NWIHT's primary mission is to provide the prospective ALL the data that s/he needs to make an informative decision -- even to the point of directing the said prospective to another accredited school -- if that's what it would take for the student to be successful.

Fact #3. All of NWIHT's instructors have been approved by both the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulations, Board of Nursing. These two State agencies put any institution applying for an educational permit through a magnifying glass. They scrutinize each and every instructor's curriculum vitae as well as their qualification to teach their subject-matter-expertise. The school is also accredited by the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement. All of these approvals and accreditations take years upon years to attain due to the rigors of the requirements and the inspections that take place during a candidacy period.

Fact #4. The school DOES NOT sell grades. Students MUST EARN them down to the last tenth of a point. So if you're one of those students who just can't hack it because you have way too many alibis except to study hard, then you don't belong at NWIHT. There's no one else to blame for your woes but yourself. Feel free to bring your transcripts somewhere else.

Fact #5. NWIHT's NCLEX pass-rate for the past three years has averaged at 90% plus! The school has graduated 17 batches of students with each batch having a minimum of 15 to 25 students. That's a 90% passing rate across a minimum of 250-plus students over the period of 3-years! Now again, do your homework and see if you can find a private/public LPN school that has the same success rate. You'll find a very small percentage of them out there. NWIHT is now servicing approximately 6-7 batches (half in the evening, half in the morning), and most of them are doing well on their chosen program. Check my figures above against the Board of Nursing's NCLEX pass rate website and tell the audience here how correct my facts are.

Fact #6. The school has recently signed a 10yr lease of a 40,000 square feet facility in Skokie, Illinois where their Skokie campus is now located. The cost of the physical build-out and the infrastructure / laboratory expenses alone in equipping the facility don't even come close to break-even point (for 2-years!) in terms of the school's tuition-to-expenses ratio. This will show you that the income the school generates through tuitions and fees ONLY go to the improvement of the school -- and nowhere else.

Fact #7. The president's car (new cadillac purchase?) is a leased vehicle -- Its primary use is to shuttle important VIPs and potential grant donors who visit the school quite often; and whom the executive management team relies on for ADDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR LOW INCOME STUDENTS. The president son's car? It's not a 2011 Nissan Nismo but an earlier 2010 Nissan 370Z model. It was purchased in late 2009 when he was still an I.T. and management consultant working for a Fortune 100 company; and way prior to him joining the institution full-time as the school's senior vice president. The senior vice president has been the primary driving force behind the school getting its State agency approvals, accreditations, legal compliance, the current PN program, and the school's upcoming LPN to AAS-RN bridge program.

How do I know all of this? Feel free to PM me directly and I'll tell you who I really am.

Too often, individuals who think ONLY of their own selfish interests would rather destroy than build. They would rather complain than look within and see if the real problem is them. They would rather vent in public forums (such as this one) in the hopes of "getting even" instead of taking accountability for their own inactions. They would rather put blame on an institution whose sole mission is 'educational and service excellence for all,' instead of hitting the books smartly so that they can really EARN their way through becoming safe and competent professionals.

For those of you, true seekers of the Nursing profession, I have only one request -- and that is "do your homework." Do your homework with due diligence. Do your homework with integrity and honesty. Above all, do your homework with a burning passion that will carry you through many sleepless nights. For when you've asked all the questions that you can possibly ask, answered all the questions that need answering, and taken and passed all the tests worthy of the noblest of all professions (that is of service to others), you'll find out that true success can only come from true and honest hard-work that springs from within -- and never, ever from trying to destroy others.

Respectfully,

Hanzo

@moneymakingschools

i rarely reply to these threads but i couldn’t resist….

i don’t understand how an important fact to my education has something to do with the administrators having nice cars.

though there were some negative points that i saw in northwestern institute… it isn’t too different from any other private lpn school in illinois. i have had some friends actually graduate from northwestern institute years back. they had some frustrations but the resounding reply is “i’m getting what i paid for… and i will be able to be a nurse in a year”. my friends who have graduated actually were able to bridge into a rn program and have careers now. personally i wasted 4 years of my life bouncing back and forth from these private nursing schools and finally settled down with a school in indiana. i actually registered and attended classes at cmk, northwestern institute, ici, omega, ambria... all because of my indecisiveness and immaturity. i left each one because i was frustrated by the way they handled my case… to be honest after all that i found that it wasn’t the school it was me. yeah things may be frustrating but the schools are there and are approved for a reason… all those schools are money making schools… but the point is “can i get what i came for?”

if i have to choose a money making school… i’d choose northwestern institute… at least they accept financial aid and have been around for years… so they are expert money suckers that graduate professional lpns! hahaha!

no matter where you go, private lpn schools will be expensive... they will have their own system of running things... and you will come across instructors that are the best and instructors that you don't even know how they passed their board exams. as long as you can get the basic nursing knowledge, learn a bit about compassion, graduate, pass your nclex, and start working... you can make that money back in matter of months.

people should just quit complaining and suck it up no matter where they're at. if you don't stick with the game plan... everything will fall apart.

@money making schools - if i didn't know any better i bet you were just bitter at northwestern institute because you didn't get what you wanted.... salty much?

Are thereany current students of ECPI in greenville sc? I start the program in November and I would like to know what to expect?? And maybe find someone who will be starting the program along with me.. Thanks so much!! VERY NERVOUS!! Missy D

@ Hanzo,

I finally after months of passing by NWIHT, decided to go in and inquire about their LPN program. My English class was back in 1996, do I still need to take that couse even though it's English. I am asking you because you seem so well versed on this school's info. Also, does GPA factor in the admission process?

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