Keiser University New Port Richey — Attraction in New Port Richey

Do not go to this place for nursing. I regretted my choice to go to this school every single day. It is overpriced for the education that you will receive, if you receive any education at all. I am paying to teach myself nursing. Period. I am 100% paying an insane amount of money to teach myself nursing. If you find that you are not learning, that is your fault, even though you are not being taught and you are paying THEM to teach you. It is your fault. They tell you that their number one priority is the students. There number one priority is themselves. Don't get me wrong, there are less than a handful of professors that don't know any better and they don't realize what they have gotten themselves into, but when they do wake up, they leave. If you go to someone in confidence, your name will be dragged through the mud to every single professor. The director of nursing, the president and the dean act like everything is roses and rainbows. They tell people what they think they want to hear and god forbid if someone confronts them. Speaking of the director of nursing, get ready to be beyond disappointed with your clinical sites. They have nursing students that are about to graduate and nursing students that just started in horrible nursing homes that I wouldn't send my worst enemy to. These students don't need to be in nursing homes, they need to be in hospitals and clinics where they get REAL experience in a PROFESSIONAL environment, with a variety of specialties and settings, where they are being taught the PROPER way to do things. Not in some hole in the wall where they are not taking care of patients and don't have supplies, gloves, hand sanitizer or even pillow cases for their patients. It is insane! The president is rude and arrogant. He is impossible to talk to and he really should be a politician, because he never answers questions with a yes or a no. He can't admit when he doesn't know something. He gets very frazzled when backed into a corner with questions by students that really know what is going on. The dean, Director Pascoe and President Gibbons are like broken records, they will just repeat the same thing over and over, not really answering the question, not addressing the real problem and attempting to manipulate the conversation by changing the topic. They are not ACEN accredited. They are also on probation because of their NCLEX scores and they are not disclosing this to incoming students and they never sent out letters that they were legally obligated to send to all nursing students notifying them of the situation because it has the potential to negatively impact the students. Several students that are currently enrolled in the nursing program are reaching out to other universities to try and find a way out. This is by far the most unorganized, unprofessional and down right ridiculous facility/school/organization/business I have ever had the misery of dealing with. Go literally anywhere but here. I don't know how these people...

NOT go to this school. I completed the ADN program which was thoroughly disappointing. Seven nursing faculty members quit or got fired in the year that I was on campus, including the Director of the RN program. Where do I even start? They accept anybody who can pay the outrageous tuition. If people don't pass, they will be pushed through, no matter what. The class sizes are impossibly huge: We had 25 people in our class, and they kept adding more because the only thing that the school's administration cares about is money. These huge class sizes caused a lot of problems: the instructors who didn't quit right away were overburdened and overwhelmed, the clinical sites hated us because there were so many of us. There were multiple people in my class who NEVER DID ANY SKILLS in clinical. The instructors didn't keep track. Also, a huge class such as this means that each student gets less attention. Four or five students in our class got 90% of the instructors' time and attention, because they were bitchy and constantly needy. As an LPN, I was expected to be a clinical instructor! No joke: I was made to teach nursing skills to people with NO medical experience because there were not enough instructors. We were paying 50K to be taught by people who had been to school for 18 months! There are no consequences for people who don't come to class or clinical, or who don't do assignments. If things don't go the way you want them to go, all you have to do is sit in the dean's office and cry enough until you get whatever it is you want that week: to avoid having to disappoint anyone or tell anyone 'no', she will just agree to anything. We had a teacher who attempted to display some academic integrity who failed several people who did not pass. They were all readmitted because they sat around crying and bitching enough. It was pathetic. They kept repeating to us that we would have two attempts to pass the exit Hesi, but in reality, people could take it as many times as they wanted. We had a teacher for med/surg and psych who cheated us through all of the tests -- she would orally tell us every question that was going to be on the test and then give us the answers. We didn't have to buy textbooks or even bother to learn the material. None of the staff or faculty have any idea what is going on -- have a simple question like 'when is spring break'? -- you will be directed to three people since no one knows. Finally, the administration caters to each and every whim of drama queens. Want policy changed to reflect your personal beliefs or situation? Want to engage in retaliation against classmates for perceived slights? They'll do that. There is no integrity at this school. Please don't make the same mistake that I did. I'm glad that I went to a really top notch LPN school -- that's where I learned to be a nurse. The NCLEX passage rate is a straight lie. Go to a regular school even if it means...

I was enrolled in a BSN program at a different university and decided to give Keiser a look to maybe consider switching. This past Friday 6/14, I dedicated the day to checking out local schools. Let me start by saying what a waste of 2 1/2 hours. Here it goes. I spoke with Roxanne and spent an hour of anwering interview and personality like questions. Throughout our conversation she would repetitively ask "do you understand," but she asked so much, I had to stop her and say, "look I completely understand everything you are saying, though I don't think you understand my questions or what I am saying". I was asked to take a 12 min test to see if I qualify for the school, which is fine, but I told her repeatedly that I didn't want to take the test, apply or pay any fees until my transcripts could be reviewed and I could provide my Veterans affairs vocational rehabilitation counselor with an hypothetical educational planning map that I need to provide for approval to attend. I was told that after the test it would be provided. After the test I was asked to pay a $55 application fee and get this $140 for financial aid fees for them to sit down with me and look at my transcripts and provide what I needed to give VA before they would approve me to attend here. Once I told her that, the response was "oh" and at this point I'm annoyed and remind her she wasn't listening or understanding me and that, that transcript eval is what I needed the whole time. "We don't do that," she says. I respond really, ok this has been a complete wastr of time and that's odd because every university I've been to/attended from California to Tampa have been able to do so, regardless if it was a prelaid out format, but apparently they were willing to work a bit to gain my business and guaranteed funding from VA. She storms out of room, I guess her true colors showing and very unprofessionally says, "you know what, Ill be right back." Are you kidding me, we are at 3 hour mark of completely wasting my day and I decided to leave before she even came back to room. I left thinking, really? This did not go anyway planned and I would never consider this campus due to this experience before even being a student. She seemed to be on auto pilot during the entirety of my visit and quite obviously did not care to pay attention to my questions, concerns or needs. But she did make it very clear of the $55 fee and the $140 fee. Whereas she quite obviously does not understand being a VA student, my funding is covered by VA, including whatever ridiculous fees like financial aid ( never heard of a school charging for financial aid services). Therefore had I been irrational enough to want to sign up here, those fees would not be coming out of my pocket. Way to go 👍at providing such a unprofessional experience and losing a...