Has anyone heard of or attended the College of Nursing Technology in Reseda?

If you plan on getting a BSN, then you should be looking into the local community college programs. Proprietary schools such as this one will not provide you with credits that will transfer to a public school. Look at LAVC, Pierce, Mt. St. Mary's, etc. for programs that will transfer to four year institutions. You will also find the community college programs to be more economically priced.

If you are looking to support yourself as an LVN, you may not be very successful. There are threads and posts of new grad LVNs in the greater LA area who can not find a job. No job that pays $15 an hour should be considered to be mundane. While $15/hr is low for LVNs, there are employers that will try to pay that amount to an LVN, provided they have a job to offer at all.

Hello there,
I am a current student at College of Nursing and Tech, so I can perhaps offer you a bit of insight into the way the school functions. I also am a very good student, and am wanting to get my RN asap and my BSN as well. Also, I make about $15 an hour, and work 30 hours so that I can afford to study and go to school, as well as concurrently taking my RN prereqs at Pierce.

A few things. An LVN license will not be 'that' much of a pay increase. If you work at a hospital, 18-19/hour, if you do something like long term care, maybe 22/hour. This is just what I've heard from my clinical instructors and others that we've been working with. Which can make quite a difference, I understand, but its nowhere near the RN amount.

Its a long, LONG wait to get into the actual program at Pierce or other Community Colleges around LA, either the full RN program or a bridge program. It would most likely be faster to get your LVN first, and then find a bridge program. As far as transferring credits goes, you don't earn credits for this school, its more of a "trade college." You do, however, earn your license, which will knock off the first year of RN school, but you will still need all of those pre-reqs to get in to RN school, like Anatomy, Chemistry, Micro, etc. So you will still have to get those out of the way somehow.

Now for the actual school. There's been a lot of changes since I've started going here, so I'm not sure how things will end up, but with any school they do want to better themselves. The last batch of students I don't think anyone passed the EXIT exam the first try, so weren't even ALLOWED to take the NCLEX. That said, they brought in new teachers and a new director, and it seems they are more focused on getting us into being nurses. Of course, when I found out the low passing rate, I was already knee deep 2 months into the program, and saw all the changes they were making, so learned to live with it. I would swing by and get a feel for the school, its not in the nicest area to begin with, but again, we are in the Valley, after all.

If I could find another school for the same amount, with a higher passing rate, I would have gone. But for the price, it really can't be beat. But if you can find another school I would suggest it, only because it seems this one has had more then its share of drama. Good luck, its a tough one out there.

The southern California job market has been extremely brutal to new LVNs lately. Please click on the blue link below to read the responses. Many newly graduated LVNs have been looking for work for 6 months to 1 year without any luck, but their student loan payments are still due to be repaid. The ones who are finding jobs are averaging about $18 to $19 per hour. Good luck to you.

http://allnurses.com/lpn-lvn-corner/...ad-389524.html