integrity college of health

k24si · May 22, 2014

My review of Integrity College of Health

Don't be fooled by the price! You get what you pay for! I paid around $17K for the program. I graduated 2013 LPN student. Not sure where to begin, but I'll start off with this...

CONS: Unorganized administration. The office has only 1 person to do all paperwork. She is so slow!!!! There is NO cutting edge technology! Old laptops that are just stacked away in a drawer with no matching power cords. These laptops are used when taking ATI final semester finals. The medical devices/equipment is somewhat outdated and some of the machines don't turn on! We barely used the equipment, because they told us that we would learn our skill-set during clinical rounds. Clinical rounds came... the clinical sites are at the worst skilled nursing facilities. We had about 10 people in our class. ONLY 2 out of 10 of us, were able to do an actual catheter out of our 13 month program. Really? Where is the hands on experience?! Not once did we go to a hospital of any type! The rest of us practiced on a dummy... weak! When it came time for our Pediatric rotation... we ended up a school nursery... weak! All we did at the school was observation. NO hands on experience with newborns or pediatrics. Maternity rotation comes along.... integrity contracts with a OBGYN doctor's office.... again all we did was observe with no hands on training. Again, they don't have any Hospital clinical sites... WEAK!!! WHAT A JOKE! To top it off, only 2 of could go at a time because the OBGYN doc. would only allow 2 students at a time in his office. The rest of us had to wait til the first 2 students finished 40 hours of their clinical hours.... weak!

----- Here is what they don't tell you.... don't be fooled by the passing rate of students taking the LVN/LPN NCLEX exam. They might have a high pass rate, but its a false representation of total number of students they let take the NCLEX exam. For example, there are on avg. 10 students that make it to the end of the 13 month program. From the 10 students that made, only on avg. 6 out of these 10 were allowed to take the NCLEX. There were even some previous classes that only had 2 to 3 students eligible to take the NCLEX exam out of 10 that made it to the end of the program. You have to pass there final ATI exit exam, in order for the school to submit your paperwork and get authorization to test.... if you don't pass the final ATI you will be on your own to complete the paperwork you need to test and challenge the NCLEX board.... Thus, they might have a 100% pass rate, but you have to look at the total number of people who took the test.

----Financial aid department is new, and they are unorganized. Billing dept. is unorganized. Some of my classmates were being charged late fees, or missed payments, even though they had proof that all payments were payed on time.

PROS: One of the cheapest LVN programs out there in the area, and now they have financial aid. The clinical instructors for LVN program are caring, they want you to succeed, and are kind.

Overall review: Inexpensive program, unorganized from top to bottom. No clinical rotations at any hospitals. Stayed at the skilled nursing facility. Technology is old and so is the classroom. You learn from lectures and power-point presentations... at least they could of used videos to supplement learning. Instructors and above average. The owner is nice and she cares. If you want outstanding learning environment and cutting edge experience with hands on experience, look elsewhere. If you have a difficult time with certain subject matter, and require help from the instructors at Integrity College of Health, be warned. They are nice but they don't sit with you and help you understand the content. When I asked for help in anyway, shape, or form, they would just tell me to read. I'm a visual learner and needed help understanding certain concepts... thanks to Youtube and the internet, I found the help that I needed, and stopped searching for answers through the instructors at Integrity.

About me: I graduated 2013, and passed the NCLEX on my first attempt. I believe I succeeded due to my own determination. I studied for 4 weeks, 5 hours per day prior to taking the NCLEX. I used Saunders NCLEX review, Kaplan book review, online tutorials, and my ATI books.