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?
