International College of Health Sciences (ICHS) June 2021

FutureeeRN · May 4, 2021

Thank you, do you know of any school one can go in Florida?

soontobenurseeden · May 5, 2021

Hey kittylvn2 I don't know your experience personally.. but I do know that every nursing school has an exit exam they want you to get a passing grade before exiting due to helping keep their NCLEX pass rates up. I can only imagine that covid has caused clinical problems. I know people even at schools over here where having problems. Can I ask how do you get your clinical hours? Do they assign them or you have to schedule them? Are you still going to graduate though? Thanks for you telling me your experience.

KittyLVN2 · May 6, 2021

Let me put it this way, 90% of the students have only negative things to say about it and many of them don't wanna talk about it because they are still in the program. My whole batch is so pissed off at school due to unannounced changes that took place. Professors quitting left to right. And for clinical we go to nursing home. How the hell we suppose to get our training in nursing home changing bed linens and diaper changes. As for the exit exam, they purposefully make it harder for students to pass. I took exit exam as well in my lvn school but they give 3 or 4 tries unlike 2 tries and you are out of the program. As for clinical hours they want us to meet their requirements and hours but they don't have clinical sites available for us. Many of us needs to do 20 to 40 days of clinical days in florida but we barely have 4 or 5 days booked. It sucks for us out of state ppl. The only good thing about this program is getting into the program. Yes its easy to get into the program because they want your money and the hardest thing is to graduate. It's all fun and games until u are in the last semester. Let me tell you this now forget about going together for clinicals to florida so u can save your expenses because all the clinical dates are so spread out and prepare for flying there alone and staying there alone. Students are responsible for booking for cliniclas on moodle but the dates arent available. When they opened clinicals weeks ago, they were all booked in minutes and since then nothing is available. I was suppose to graduate in April cuz thats what they told me 10 months because I passed my gap test and now in may they have exit exam date is unsure and I still need to do clinical hours before I can take the exit exam. I m not graduating anytime soon. Give or take maybe graduating in august or September if everything goes planned. Meanwhile everyone in cali is graduating so far on time and are able to go to clinicals. But ichs states its due to covid that clinicals sites arent available. Thats is their job to find clinical spots for us and we pay them for it. Majority of us are working full time, have family , making monthly tuition fees ans still not knowing if we are able to graduate or not. The staff is so rude except one or two instructors but the faculty they don't wanna tale responsibility for anything and they blame it on students. I still recommend finding other schools. Any other school but ichs. Look at other threads, u can find many former students only saying negative things and felt lucky to be able to graduate on time. I pray day and night to be able to graduate. But in the end, its your decision but please try other schools first especially the ones that have financial aid available because those schools are reliable. Good luck

jessih · May 6, 2021

Hi soontobenurseden,

I will be starting the June program at ICHS in June but they change the start date till July 5 I believe the last time I check. I would love to have a travel buddy to cut down travel expenses. I live in the Bay Area, California.

KittyLVN2 · May 12, 2021

Jessih, good luck if you think u gonna be traveling together and split the cost for traveling. Thats what I thought too but you ll be choosing your clinical dates that are so scattered out that you ll be lucky enough to find a partner the same dates. Plan to visit florida more often than u expected and save up some money. You r gonna be in this program for a long time.
FYI, start studying for the exit exam.

jessih · May 12, 2021

KittyLVN2,

I understand the frustration with the delay of clinical and the exit exam.

soontobenurseeden · May 13, 2021

Jessih,

Email me [email protected] I don't have enough posts on here to email you. Something have changed for me.

Pearls22, LVN, RN · May 14, 2021

Hi, I hope to be starting July 5th

soontobenurseeden · May 14, 2021

Calinurse18,

That's awesome where are you coming from in California?

jessih · May 15, 2021

I am from the Bay Area! Where are you from! So glad to find another classmate in my cohort. Yay!!

Pearls22, LVN, RN · May 15, 2021

I’m in Bakersfield, CA

jessih · May 15, 2021

Nice! Are you starting at ICHS in July.