Dallas Nursing Institute

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Hi everyone - I am new here but am starting at DNI in the night program in August. I saw some old feedback, and was wondering if anyone has some recent feedback?

Thanks vcurrin02!! I hadn't heard of this program!!! All classes are on-line? Where can I find out more info? How long is the program and what are the requirements??:confused: Sorry for all the questions but my interest is peaked!!!:yeah:

No problem, go to http://stateu.com/uta/nur_bsn.asp that link will give you more info. Yes all the classes can be taken online, except clinicals and I think chemistry. Because it is a bsn program it will require you to take a few extra classes like gov and history if you havent already. Once you get your prereq out the way they say its 15 months. Good Luck

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Specializes in AA&I, research,peds, radiation oncology.
No problem, go to http://stateu.com/uta/nur_bsn.asp that link will give you more info. Yes all the classes can be taken online, except clinicals and I think chemistry. Because it is a bsn program it will require you to take a few extra classes like gov and history if you havent already. Once you get your prereq out the way they say its 15 months. Good Luck

Thanks so much!!! I'm on my way to the site now!!! I'm already enrolled at CCCC in Plano so I can just do all the prereq's there!! I really appreciate your help!:heartbeat

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Im just happy to be able to help. Good Luck

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Specializes in Home Health.

What is this AP program at UTA.....?

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Its an academic partnership with uta

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I am seriously considering the ADN-RN program at DNI. Can you tell me if the schedule is everyday all day? I would like to at least work part-time while in school.

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Specializes in AA&I, research,peds, radiation oncology.
I am seriously considering the ADN-RN program at DNI. Can you tell me if the schedule is everyday all day? I would like to at least work part-time while in school.

Hopefully Sugarwugga could verify this for me since she started the program this January. During my orientation in October, I was told it is an 8 hr a day/5 days per week program. Clinicals would probably be on the weekends!

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Thanks for the info. It kind of makes it hard to work unless you work in the evenings. I am an EMT and my shifts are 15 hours so that pretty much means I would have to quit working.

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Specializes in Case Management & Med-Surg.

Hello everyone...sorry I have not been on the site to reply. I just finished my second week at DNI...what can I say:yawn:...I am tired....It has been so much I don't know where to start. First if all , the first day was great orientation and all. Then on to the classes. It has started out as 8-2pm for the first two weeks. Multiple classes,

OB, Mental Health, LVN Transition to RN and Physical Assessment. Its really a fast pace program. I am really enjoying the instructors and the staff. Everyone will say and think differently, but I am so glad I chose this program. Classes and Clinical are during the week and no classes or clinical on the weekends. They really laid everything out for us. We got some of our books, our uniforms and clinical bags. Once alot of the local students find out about this program they will just on it quickly. It is well worth it. I am just looking forward to graduation....:nurse:

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Specializes in AA&I, research,peds, radiation oncology.

Oh Sugarwugga!!! I'm so glad you've come back to give us an update!! Now I'm getting really motivated to get my act together!!! So the classes are 8-2 so far? How's the workload?? Homework?? Please keep up posted and keep up the good work!!!:yeah:

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I am going to preface this by saying that before attending DNI, I went to an acclaimed state university and got great grades in nearly all my courses. I went to a private high school and scored in the top of all my standardized tests. I have never, ever had a problem with academics before, even when I had bad teachers.

DNI is the most unprofessional excuse for a school I have ever seen. The tests are a joke. Half of the questions are easy, the other half are questions we never studied or were SPECIFICALLY excluded. I have had teachers say "You will never have to know this, so we won't study it, don't worry" and have three questions on that specific thing show up on the next test. A lot of the teachers are absolutely awful. The financial aid office is sketchy and very hard to pin down about specifics. I've been through the financial aid process at other schools...how come DNI cuts corners and plays games with the money? They didn't tell several students they had recieved state grants and had them paying the whole of tuition. When tax time came around, the students recieved forms from the state about the grants that they NEVER saw. DNI had no excuse other than claiming "Well we applied them to your tuition..." Then why are the students still paying the same amount (full price)?

How dare they increase tuition THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS in the space of one month and DECREASE the amount spent on supplies included? The 8/10 class paid $23,000. The 9/21 class paid $26,000. The 8/10 class recieved stethoscopes that are approximately $50 in value; the 9/21 class received stethoscopes that are worthless and cost probably about $5 (or less if bought in bulk.)

More than half the class is GUARANTEED to fail out before the first semester is over. This is to be expected, due to the fact that they accept everyone. However, changing student's grades based on how well a teacher likes a person...completely unethical, and yet acknowledged by everyone who goes there. There is a well-known cheating network filled with students who know each other outside of class and pass on old test questions and answers. If you're not part of it, tough luck. You have to make it on your own. This I do not mind, because I would rather know I achieved my success on my own. However, allowing students to cheat makes for nurses who are dangerous.

Students who make good grades in the academic courses are passed in skills lab even if they are completely incompetent at what they are doing, as long as they apologize and promise to "do better."

The teachers look the other way for certain students who make mistakes, yet pounce on others. For example? At a recent skills checkoff, one student STABBED HIMSELF with a needle twice and made a medication error, yet still passed the checkoff. Another was failed because he didn't hold the medication to eye level while drawing it up, even though he checked it at eye level and it was correct.

Don't even get me started on clinical instructors--there are two in particular who have told students to give medications while refusing to allow them to see the MAR, patient's chart, or Doctor's orders. When the students refused to give the medication without seeing this information, they were failed for the day, and hence the whole semester. The issue was brought up at student council, but nothing as of yet has come of it...the administration prefers to blame any problems on students, rather than admitting they hire faculty who teach bad practices.

They also hire faculty who completely look down on the practice of a LVN. Why work teaching LVNs if you think they are useless, glorified CNAs? Better yet, why hire and keep teachers on who are completely disrespectful of the education your institution is trying to give???

Skills instructors teach skills differently, and you will be failed if you do it any way other than how the instructor grading you wants it done. DNI's response to this is "Get every skills instructor to teach you, memorize how they all do it, and do it differently based on who's checking you off." That's all well and good, but when you have dozens of instructors who teach in different areas, including some you have never seen before, that is literally IMPOSSIBLE.

There's more, but I'm tired of typing...tired of fighting with the administration, tired of students sitting back when they are wronged and saying "I just want to graduate, if I make a fuss then they'll get me." This school is ridiculously bad. I would NEVER advise anyone who values ethics, academic honesty, or good practice to come here, nor anyone who actually wants to get a good nursing education. They are nitpicky about things that nurses who work in the "real world" don't care about at ALL, yet let things that are actually DANGEROUS slide. Okay...I have to stop myself, because I'm getting angry again.

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Specializes in Dialysis.

my tuiton was 18,500. I had a crappy stethoscope.

I got very good grades because I studied my butt off.

I heard of the cheating ring, but it wasn't in my class.

Some instructors do suck.

I'm a nurse now. That's the result I was looking for.

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