Has anyone heard of Ideal Professional Institute School of Nursing?

vanilla bean · Dec 14, 2018

The good news is that their students can sit for the NCLEX exam. The bad news is that, according to NCSBN, from 1/1/18-3/31/18 they had 52 of their program graduates took the NCLEX-RN exam and had a less than 10% pass rate. Here's a link to that report - it's long but in alphabetical order, so keep scrolling down.

Jedrnurse, BSN, RN · Dec 14, 2018

It may not be logical, but their name alone makes me doubt.

elkpark · Dec 14, 2018

Jedrnurse said:

It may not be logical, but their name alone makes me doubt.

That was my immediate thought, too. LOL

OP, the state of Florida, passed legislation several years ago to make owning and operating nursing schools easier and cheaper. They took control of nursing schools away from the BON and gave it to the state dept. of education. Since then, quite a few "nursing schools" have opened there that would never be allowed to operate in any other US state. Many of these "schools" have horrible NCLEX pass rates and would get shut down in other states simply because of their poor pass rates. The "schools" get away with this because the state of Florida doesn't care (apparently), and the students they prey upon don't know any better. I would encourage you to tread carefully and look for a legitimate, established program with strong NCLEX pass rates and low attrition. Many people are getting taken advantage of in Florida; they're paying a lot of money for substandard nursing "education" that doesn't prepare them for the NCLEX nor prepare them to enter practice successfully.

I would not be surprised if the rest of the country doesn't eventually catch on and start refusing to license by endorsement graduates of some of these Florida "schools" or stop recognizing Florida graduates altogether.

**NICU Guy, BSN, RN** · Dec 15, 2018

The 9.62% NCLEX pass rate has got to be a new record. If you took 52 random people off the street and had them study and take NCLEX, is it possible for at least 6 to pass?

js621d · Dec 16, 2018

It doesn't appear to be accredited by either ACEN or CCNE. I would NOT go there.

rzyzzy · Dec 16, 2018

This is horrifying! Many of these programs have less than ten students & a 0% pass rate.

I don't understand how you can run a nursing program's clinical/practical portion with less than five students.

If Florida allows this to continue, I can see a blacklist coming from other states.

**NICU Guy, BSN, RN** · Dec 16, 2018

rzyzzy said:

This is horrifying! Many of these programs have less than ten students & a 0% pass rate.

I don't understand how you can run a nursing program's clinical/practical portion with less than five students.

The report does not show the number of graduates in that period; it shows the number of graduates from that period taking the test. For example, if 30 students graduated in Dec. 2017 and 5 took the test in Jan-March 2018, it would show Dec 2017 - 5 attempted the test. It does not mean that only five graduated in Dec 2017.

**NICU Guy, BSN, RN** · Dec 16, 2018

The scariest part is that only 3/52 were recent graduates (12/17). The rest are repeat test takers stretching back to Sept 2014. Some of these graduates have been trying to pass the test for 3 1/2 yrs.

Meghan3332 · May 16, 2019

They also require you to put $5000.00 down to start the program.

ms.jones · May 29, 2021

After signing up for the school and paying a deposit, I found this post. This will be my first week of classes. If the school is legitimate in sending my information to the NYS Board of nursing, I can pass NCLEX. It is an accelerated program and probably requires a lot of self-teaching. I'm ready. We'll see.

turquoise tucker · Jun 8, 2021

ms.jones said:

After signing up for the school and paying a deposit, I found this post. This will be my first week of classes. If the school is legitimate in sending my information to the NYS Board of Nursing, I can pass NCLEX. It is an accelerated program and probably requires a lot of self-teaching. I'm ready. We'll see.

Hi, I'm looking to apply to the LVN-RN program at this school. How has it been so far I know it's only been a couple of days.