Nightingale College 2021

Slamp, CNA · Mar 31, 2021

I go to Nightingale College and am a remote learner currently in New Mexico but will be moving to California in July (military family). I just passed my fundamentals HESI on Monday so I am now just wrapping up my second semester of the nursing classes. Feel free to ask any questions.

ttatum1001, LVN · Mar 31, 2021

1 hour ago, Slamp said:

I go to Nightingale College and am a remote learner currently in New Mexico but will be moving to California in July (military family). I just passed my fundamentals HESI on Monday so I am now just wrapping up my second semester of the nursing classes. Feel free to ask any questions.

How do you like the program so far? Are there any pros or cons that you would care to share?

Heatherina6 · Apr 12, 2021

Hello, all. I’m also from CA and have been considering Nightingale since the past four years trying to get into an LVN-to-RN bridge program here has yielded zero results due to it being lottery basis. Congratulations to all of you who have already been admitted. I took most of my prerequisite courses about 10 years ago. Do you happen to know if they have a time frame that you need to have taken them in? I will be contacting Nightingale this week and am enjoying reading your comments. Thank you.

Sidnalroy · Apr 18, 2021

I have been going to nightingale since Summer of 2019. It’s been okay so far. Due to covid we couldn’t do any clinical rotation here in Las Vegas. The new semester will start in 3 weeks and we are finally doing clinicals at the valley health system, although it’s only once a week.

Lily89 · Apr 19, 2021

If you live in California how often do you have to travel for clinicals? I’m applying for the August 2021 cohort.

Sidnalroy · Apr 19, 2021

Yes you do. I have a classmate from San Diego and she travels for her clinicals.

She travels once a weeks.

lvnash, LVN · Apr 19, 2021

On 4/18/2021 at 12:48 PM, Sidnalroy said:

I have been going to nightingale since Summer of 2019. It’s been okay so far. Due to covid we couldn’t do any clinical rotation here in Las Vegas. The new semester will start in 3 weeks and we are finally doing clinicals at the valley health system, although it’s only once a week.

Thanks for the insight ! Wow I wish I was able to do Las Vegas it would be so much easier to travel . How time consuming are the actual courses ? Is it doable working full time ?

53 minutes ago, Lily89 said:

If you live in California how often do you have to travel for clinicals? I’m applying for the August 2021 cohort.

Hello,

from what I was told I would still have to travel at the end of every semester for clinicals .I only have to travel a few times because I’m already a Lvn and tested out of courses . It just depends on how much u already have done .

Sidnalroy · Apr 19, 2021

1 minute ago, lvnash said:

Thanks for the insight ! Wow I wish I was able to do Las Vegas it would be so much easier to travel . How time consuming are the actual courses ? Is it doable working full time ?

I work full time and it’s totally doable. They actually gave me the option to take 1 clinical course per semester. Which is easier for me because it requires only 1 or 2 days a week for clinicals. You have 5 clinical courses and 1 preceptor course towards the end of the program.

The other classes are all online. ?

lvnash, LVN · Apr 19, 2021

On 4/11/2021 at 10:08 PM, Heatherina6 said:

Hello, all. I’m also from CA and have been considering Nightingale since the past four years trying to get into an LVN-to-RN bridge program here has yielded zero results due to it being lottery basis. Congratulations to all of you who have already been admitted. I took most of my prerequisite courses about 10 years ago. Do you happen to know if they have a time frame that you need to have taken them in? I will be contacting Nightingale this week and am enjoying reading your comments. Thank you.

Hello ,

It sucks that we live in a state that nursing schools are soooo impacted , I was in the same boat as you for years . This school is definitely a blessing for most of us that has tried so many times to get into our local programs. For the course work I think it’s up to 7 years for sciences like most schools, but I would ask to be certain .

Sidnalroy · Apr 19, 2021

33 minutes ago, lvnash said:

Thanks for the insight ! Wow I wish I was able to do Las Vegas it would be so much easier to travel . How time consuming are the actual courses ? Is it doable working full time ?

Hello,

from what I was told I would still have to travel at the end of every semester for clinicals .I only have to travel a few times because I’m already a Lvn and tested out of courses . It just depends on how much u already have done .

If you are an LPN then you will start at BSN 246, then you will have 266, 346, 366 for clinicals. Clinicals starts the second or third week of when the class starts

lvnash, LVN · Apr 19, 2021

3 minutes ago, Sidnalroy said:

If you are an LPN then you will start at BSN 246, then you will have 266, 346, 366 for clinicals. Clinicals starts the second or third week of when the class starts

Yes I was told I don’t actually have to travel until 346 because of testing out of 246 and 266 .Because I’m a distant Learner I have no site near me so I will be going at the end of the semester for clinical in whatever state is available for 5-12 days . They’re not offering Las Vegas campus to us, I was told it is impacted .

Sidnalroy · Apr 19, 2021

Ohh that’s great! Several of my classmates are LPN and they only tested out of 225. Your case must be different. Also, I would confirm that you will be taking clinicals at the end of the course. So far I have not see that with my group or other groups in Las Vegas. They were trying to accommodate long distant learner that were traveling to Las Vegas by having them do 1 while week straight of clinicals then be off for 1 month the start again with 1 weeks of clinicals. I believe they stopped doing that though.