lane990

So Louisville is an awesome place to work and live! CRNA pay is around $150K-170 for new grads. UofL has an AMAZING team of CRNAs and MDAs. Many of whom were the reason I went to CRNA school to begin with. It is 1:4 ratio and they do have anesthesia MD residents. They have a variety of shifts (8, 10, 12) and there is some call but not a ton because of the residents. I don’t know anything about Norton except that it is run by Northstar, who I have very little respect for after a ridiculously lowball offer I received for another facility they run down in Tennessee. However, I also know CRNAs who went from UofL to Norton and vice versa so take that for what you will. What school are you coming from?

My focus isn't really on the increase in tuition. It's more so on the ever-changing policies and the helplessness of the students who are already in the program. I'm asking whether that's legal, not for advice on whether I should seek legal aid or not.

See, I really don't think that is allowed. I won't say 'legal' since we can't give legal advice. But essentially, all these people saying 'Check the fine lines. It says they can change things as needed' but the truth is, they can't change everything. They can change things like the book that's required for the class or the dates of things, but they're not 'allowed' to change things like fees and course objectives after the course has already begun---the fact that they told you guys before the drop date probably makes it 'allowed' or if you were already supposed to pay for Hesi and they just upped the date it had to be paid by. But for ALL students, it is not 'allowed' for schools to change BIG things and if it's a real issue, you might want to seek advice from someone with a little more pull... An instructor told me that so I'm not just blowing smoke here.

Essentially, my classmates and I have experienced an array of ordeals at my school since beginning the nursing program last year. Most notably, the administration changes the handbook policies frequently and continues to make the rules/standards stricter. Example: When I started the nursing program in the Fall 2013, the minimum passing Hesi Score was 750. It was upped to 800 in the Summer 2013 and then raised again for the Fall 2013 semester. While I realize that nursing continues to change and standards to become a nurse continue to rise, what I don't understand how it's legal to change the policies and raise the tuition rates after a student has already been accepted into a nursing program and has started it. Furthermore, another new policy was implemented this semester, that being: If a student is not present on the first day of class, he/she will be dropped from the class. This change in policy was not told to the students prior to the start of school and several students, with special circumstances, were very alarmed after getting an email saying they were being dropped from a class for not attending the first day whenever they did not even know that policy was in place. I would like to know if this continual change in school policies/handbook is legal after a student has already begun the program? I've heard that in many universities once a student has begun the program, they are grandfathered into a certain curriculum and the tuition rate remains fixed until completion of the program. **Note: the school I attend is a private nursing school, not a public/state university, although it is not Ivy League or anything like that.