RN who graduated from Concorde Career College

U.S.A. Colorado

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I was hoping someone could shed some light on Concorde Career College. I really want to go to nursing school at the local community college but I'm a little frustrated with all the pre reqs and the waiting list. If I go the community college way, I'm looking at 1.5-2 years of pre reqs, since I will be working full time, and then I have the two year nursing program. If I go to school at Concorde, all I have to do is complete the 15 month program and then I'm a nurse :) I just have some concerns with the education that is provided and if hospitals hire graduates from Concorde. I appreciate everyone's time and response.

Thanks !!!

I grad from Concorde in July 2015. It had problems but I'm a nurse now. I work at a nursing home and make really good money. They nationally accredited, so if you go back to school you have to find someone that will take national. Western Governors will, and they are Regionally accredited and you can go anywhere from there I suppose.

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That's great! I guess it works out for some and not for others. Are you currently going to western governors??? Just wondering how it is. =)

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cwilhelm1977 said:
I grad from Concorde in July 2015. It had problems but I'm a nurse now. I work at a nursing home and make really good money. They nationally accredited, so if you go back to school you have to find someone that will take national. Western Governors will, and they are Regionally accredited and you can go anywhere from there I suppose.

That's great! I guess it works out for some and not for others. Are you currently going to western governors??? Just wondering how it is. ?

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I was recently employed as an Admissions Representative for a Concorde School in TN. The RN program is not currently accredited' however, it is in the process. Yes any school can apply and say it is in candidacy status and yes it is a multi year process. ACEN wants to see a body of work, not just what you say you will do. Graduation rates, NCLEX pass rates, and Placement [employment] rates all have a factor in the granting, renewal, and/or revocation of accreditation.

That school is approved by the TN BON and students are eligible to sit for the NCLEX and upon my exit the program's most recent graduating class had a 97% NCLEX pass rate.

The school had/has an articulation agreement with Christian Brothers University for students who need to graduate from an accredited program.

While it is very easy to discount a program without speaking to a program director or grad, I implore prospective to weigh their options and make the best choice for them with regard to COST, SCHEDULE, and PROGRAM OUTCOMES/BODY OF WORK.

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Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.

And what is the NCLEX pass rate for the school in Colorado? Since we're in the Colorado forum, what its pass rate is for TN is kind of irrelevant.

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klone said:
And what is the NCLEX pass rate for the school in Colorado? Since we're in the Colorado forum, what its pass rate is for TN is kind of irrelevant.

Yikes, just out of curiosity I looked it up. The CO Concorde campus first-time NCLEX pass rate since 2007 (the years that the CO BON website has listed) has been between 67.74% and 84.13%. It was

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I'm relatively late to the game here, but I'm here to defend Concorde. I attended their LPN program in 2010 and one month later I was accepted to work in a busy Internal Medicine clinic at Kaiser Permanente. A few years later, I decided to go back to Concorde for my ADN, and I graduated at the beginning of this year. We were given wonderful clinic opportunities in this program and I believe that the instructors are highly competent, all MSN instructors. So far, of the people who have taken the NCLEX (myself included) we are at 100% passing, with a few people who sit for their boards within the next few weeks. We sat for the exact same boards that some of these elitists sat for, too, and we passed. Also, their final contingency for receiving their ACEN accreditation is based off of my classes pass rates, and I have faith in the people who I went to school with as very competent nurses who will have no problems passing. I already have an RN job guaranteed for me and they did not even think twice about the fact that I went to Concorde for my education. And not that this even matters, but I'll go ahead and throw it in there for the hell of it, I had 85 questions on my LPN boards and 75 for RN. Also I have received many awards within my company throughout my nursing career. Don't discredit a nurse based on where she went to school because that is just silly.

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Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.
dianadRN said:
I'm relatively late to the game here, but I'm here to defend Concorde. I attended their LPN program in 2010 and one month later I was accepted to work in a busy Internal Medicine clinic at Kaiser Permanente. A few years later, I decided to go back to Concorde for my ADN, and I graduated at the beginning of this year. We were given wonderful clinic opportunities in this program and I believe that the instructors are highly competent, all MSN instructors. So far, of the people who have taken the NCLEX (myself included) we are at 100% passing, with a few people who sit for their boards within the next few weeks. We sat for the exact same boards that some of these elitists sat for, too, and we passed. Also, their final contingency for receiving their ACEN accreditation is based off of my classes pass rates, and I have faith in the people who I went to school with as very competent nurses who will have no problems passing. I already have an RN job guaranteed for me and they did not even think twice about the fact that I went to Concorde for my education. And not that this even matters, but I'll go ahead and throw it in there for the hell of it, I had 85 questions on my LPN boards and 75 for RN. Also I have received many awards within my company throughout my nursing career. Don't discredit a nurse based on where she went to school because that is just silly.

Did you attend school in Colorado?

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Yes, I did.

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Congratulations!

Your RN job has everything to do with your years of good showing with that employer as a LPN. The average grad would not have such an advantage...

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dianadRN said:
Also, their final contingency for receiving their ACEN accreditation is based off of my classes pass rates, and I have faith in the people who I went to school with as very competent nurses who will have no problems passing.

Well, I hope your class's pass rate is higher than it's been in the past. Concorde's NCLEX-RN pass rate is:

2012: 72.5%

2013: 78.4%

2014: 69.4%

2015: 67.7%

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Thank you. And as that might be so, I have a classmate who had zero nursing experience prior to this program, and she was hired at one of Centura's hospitals. She had zero advantage over anyone and obviously wasn't discredited as a candidate for the job based on where we graduated from. I think it's a matter of the nurse and not just the school.

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