Pima Medical Institute

BigDinkel · Jun 16, 2006

Yea i go there for the RN program. Very good school, however it is going to cost you about $15,000 a year to go there. Let me know if you need help getting in cause they get hundreds and hundreds of applicants and they only have 30-40 spots. But I think fall session they are increasing it to 120 students

cardiacRN2006, ADN, RN · Jun 16, 2006

it is going to cost you about $15,000 a year to go there.

Ouch!

NeedingInfo · Jun 16, 2006

Yea i go there for the RN program. Very good school, however it is going to cost you about $15,000 a year to go there. Let me know if you need help getting in cause they get hundreds and hundreds of applicants and they only have 30-40 spots. But I think fall session they are increasing it to 120 students

I am going to information session next week. Have you heard what they do for those that have their LPN?

BigDinkel · Jun 16, 2006

yea they have you start out with the other lpn students. For example, I'll be a LPN at the end of December, so you'll probably start out in January and graduate with a RN at the end of December of 2007. So its pretty much you skip a year. Yea i know its alot of dough, but the teachers are really good (some are not). Don't think you'll be working 40 hours a week, I work 15 hours a week and its still hard with all the homework and studying. This school is your life. So if you think you can't do that then you shouldn't apply to the school.

Plus its harder to pass the classes. You fail a class if you score less than a 77%. You get a B if you score 85% or more and a A is a 93% score or more.

My behind is in the classroom or at clinicals for 36 hours per week. So imagine the homework behind it.

NeedingInfo · Jun 16, 2006

The community colleges failing score is 76%. They average the midterm and final and it had to be 76 or better then quizzes are added on after that.

Are their drug calculation tests before each block, too?

I did the online LPN program at Rio. It was convenient but difficult.

BigDinkel · Jun 19, 2006

yea testing each block.

oONurseSharkOo · Jun 21, 2006

i heard pmi's credits dont transfer to a univeristy so you cant continue at say mcc to get you bsn so you are basically stuck at associates. is that right?

BigDinkel · Jun 21, 2006

they are currently working on that. Your credits can transfer to university of phoenix if you want your BSN, which is where i wanna go anyways. Others will be out shortly.

oONurseSharkOo · Jun 21, 2006

i see, thanks for the info

oONurseSharkOo · Jun 21, 2006

also another question related to my last i was told that pmi doesnt require prereqs like english 101 ect. ect. and the courses are taylored specificaly to your skills as a nurse, kinda like a technical school is that why the credits dont transfer?

BigDinkel · Jun 22, 2006

thats somewhat true, Im in A&P right now. Ive taken it before, but the A&P at PMI is geared more towards nursing. Its more concepts they teach about.

But if you took english 101 before or math, then you can have those credits transfered and grade to PMI and you don't get charged for it. However, A&P is the exception.