Avoid laboure college

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From a fellow student who want to warn students who are considering this college.

Please don't pay the extra money and go else where, this school is understaffed, disorganized, and oh the only clinical sites you will ever visit is Linden ponds (or some other nursing home), Carney hospital (SE) and probably some hospital in Methuen for your maternity round. they say they have affiliations to all these other amazing hospitals on their webpage but thats a lie.

They make you pay $850 !!!! for an "e-book" which you have to renew every year for $350 that provides you with books for the semester, they make you watch video tutorials before class to make things easier for them in class. This is basically a self taught school.

I didn't even know about this $850 book until the day of class (along with my other classmates) which they claimed they emailed everyone but they didn't.

"Skills Lab" were always horrible and disorganized, they never properly taught us vital signs they demonstrated once and you were on your own. oh and they never even demonstrated orthostatic vital signs to us. I only knew because I asked my tech from my job to show me everything.

This college is just so embarrassing, they didn't even know where certain classes was held until the morning of the class day. they always make last minute changes to exam dates, clinical dates and expect you to comply.

they always make excuses like "oh we have 4 other nursing sections" well duh this is a nursing school what do you expect other majors to be here also?

Please just invest your money else where, I was making a decision between laboure and Simmons and I really wish i went with Simmons, I see their students doing clinical at tufts medical center & all of that and I am always so jealous being stuck at Linden ponds. when I should of been getting training in a hospital setting.

More importantly they say that their ADN portion is 2 years that is a scam. you will more likely finish in 3 & 1/2 years if you are doing it full time.

THEY MAKE YOU FINISH ALL YOUR GEN EDS BEFORE YOU TAKE ANY CLINCALS. you have around 14 gen eds. which lets say you take 5 gen eds per semester & including the summer. you will finish your gen eds in one full year doing full time. now you can take your clinicals. which there are 4 of. you can only take 1 clinical at a time so there goes 2 years. unless you have $10,000 laying around then you could also take it in the summer. still that you take you at least 2 & a half years (2 summers included)

their ten ed classes are also a joke, I came from a biology background and their gen ed classes are not hard at all. their labs were only 1-2 hours, and at framingham each lab was AT LEAST 3-4 hours. I guess that is a good thing who wants hard classes, but really how are you suppose to have a good foundation that way?

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Specializes in Infusion Nursing, Home Health Infusion.

Get out of there and transfer. You will struggle if you do not have a good foundation. J graduated from Samuel Merritt in CA log ago and It was and still is the most awesome nursing school.I was so far ahead of the new grad nurses that I started with it was easy for me.I never really had that horrible first year most have and that was back in the day if team nursing.I had 12 to 14 pts with assessments and one LVN.I had no Internet but I DID drag my reference material to work.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

What/where is [h=1]laboure college?[/h]

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
What/where is laboure college?

Boston.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Moved to Nursing School Forum

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.

Most schools make you finish you gen ed before nursing school, and the

books are very pricey so that part sounds typical. The part regarding weak clinical sites and disorganized skills labs is where I'd be concerned.

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Sorry you're having a bad experience. I graduated from Laboure and the price was the worst part for me. I had great clinical rotations at the VA, Norwood, Newton Wellesley, south shore, etc. Nursing school is what you make out of it. You're complaining about linden ponds? When you graduate you'll be lucky to even get a job there. It's hard for new grads to get hired in their dream hospital of choice. Patients are patients, and nursing isn't only in hospital settings. Maybe you should re-evaluate why you want to do nursing or just change schools all together. Good luck.

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Sorry you're having a bad experience. I graduated from Laboure and the price was the worst part for me. I had great clinical rotations at the VA, Norwood, Newton Wellesley, south shore, etc. Nursing school is what you make out of it. You're complaining about linden ponds? When you graduate you'll be lucky to even get a job there. It's hard for new grads to get hired in their dream hospital of choice. Patients are patients, and nursing isn't only in hospital settings. Maybe you should re-evaluate why you want to do nursing or just change schools all together. Good luck.

I just started at Laboure this past January and so far I don't have any complaints. I start my first nursing course (nursing 1000) in May and I was wondering if you could give me an insight on the course. I just don't know what to expect. Thank you! :)

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I just started at Laboure this past January and so far I don't have any complaints. I start my first nursing course (nursing 1000) in May and I was wondering if you could give me an insight on the course. I just don't know what to expect. Thank you! :)

Nursing 1000 for me was a good experience overall. The first 5-6 weeks is spent in lab and I believe I had two days of lecture and two days of lab. You have to pass the tests with a certain combined score before going to clinical and pass a medication test. You'll be learning how to do injections and the basics. You won't feel like you're learning much but it's the foundation! Good luck.

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Nursing 1000 for me was a good experience overall. The first 5-6 weeks is spent in lab and I believe I had two days of lecture and two days of lab. You have to pass the tests with a certain combined score before going to clinical and pass a medication test. You'll be learning how to do injections and the basics. You won't feel like you're learning much but it's the foundation! Good luck.

Thank you!!! Are the tests before clinical really hard?

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Thank you!!! Are the tests before clinical really hard?

If you study you will be okay. The hard part for me was the stress of always having to get a certain grade. Good luck!

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OMG.

There are definitely students who can't handle the workload/complain for no reason- but I can almost guarantee this girl isn't one of them.

I go to Laboure and I would NEVER recommend this school to anyone.

I was three years into my bachelors degree when I transferred to Laboure.. they told me I could get my associates in two years and take the NCLEX. I did the research and it all seemed to be perfect.

Since starting at Laboure:

1. Advisors encourage you to take a class at a time. Literally one class at a time. Therefore it's IMPOSSIBLE to get your associates in two years. -they have a disclaimer saying it may take more because students choose to work part time...IMO students have to work part time because there's nothing to do when you're stuck taking one class at a time.

2. They offer "trimesters" meaning they have summer classes. This is a joke. I'm on the waiting list for a nursing class that has over 13 people on it...yet they won't open up another class.

It would have taken me less time to get my bachelors at a 4 year school vs my associates at Laboure. I would only recommend this school if you're working and CAN'T take classes full time...they seem dead set against anyone taking classes full time for some reason.

Also sorry if there are grammatical/spelling errors in this. Just a super-vent.

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