Hondros College of Nursing — Local services in Independence

If i can give it 0 stars I would. I am writing this as a student who successfully achieved an LPN program with amazing teachers & a great experience. However, the ADN program is another story. No one said Nursing school was going to be easy, but when a school constantly changes a curriculum that sets their students up for failure is very discouraging to a student trying to achieve their goal. Many people are interested in the Hondros Nursing program because of the fast paced program they offer. However, it’s not worth it!

As a student who worked very hard in both programs, I can tell you that I had many students and teachers agree with how I feel. You need to pass your class with a 78% & average 78% on all your exams as well. A little higher than most school averages but not too bad. This school also has a HESI entrance & Exit exam which is also required in other schools. Here’s the issue, they throw a random math exam & a Hesi at the end of your first term. These exams are a part of the “fundamentals in nursing” course. You get two attempts on both & they don’t prepare you properly for either one. I don’t blame the teachers, it’s whoever comes up with these ridiculous curriculum requirements. Anyways, with my experience I passed the class with a 86% and an exam average of above minimum requirement, which had me excited! I even passed the math test that required 95%. I, however, was unsuccessful with both hesi attempts which the school requires 900 for, & I was considered a FAIL which failed me for a class I passed & it dropped my GPA. If I decide to attend another nursing school, Hondros is at a roadblock to your success because there is no way any other college with accept your credits & or GPA status. (Sucks right? An A+/B student failing for is unjust!) I reached out to my DON who can do nothing about this & informed me that I should reach out to the dean of nursing. After one week of waiting for a response from the dean, I received an email not answering all my questions and concerns & brushing off the fact that I felt discouraged. Nursing school is not easy, but however, the way they set it up at the school is unjust. This school brags about a graduation rate being very high. What they don’t mention is that the program starts with around 70 students and ends up with 10 people graduating, so they go off stats based on that last term of 10 students. Also the school has a low NCLEX passing rate, so they are throwing these extra exams Into the first term and throughout other terms of the ADN program & requiring a pass or fail to move on. They care more about stats than they do about their students. (I understand that most schools do, however, if you’re a failure, you’re done and they want nothing to do with you). What sucks the most about that though is when you pass the class with a 90% and you’re still considered a failure. ANYWAYS... with the response I received from the dean of nursing, that’s all they care about. Again I don’t blame the teachers because the teachers really care, but they have their hands tied when it comes to certain things. Some teachers are leaving because of it and no longer want to teach there.

Update: two semesters go by and hondros changes the curriculum back to NO pass/fail on the HESI because they noticed it was not doing right by students. I decide to contact the DON who FINALLY reaches back after one month, & tells me that I am unable to start where I left off because I didn’t “pass” everything on my curriculum at the time. ... just awful.

P.S. KENT state university has sister campuses; burton & Twinsburg locations. Their nursing programs also have NO WAITLIST & their cost or nursing school for both LPN & RN are 1/3 of what HONDROS charges!

I suggest you take your time looking into other schools because this one is not worth your money, it’s not worth your dedication, & it’s definitely not...

Whatever you do, please consider going somewhere else like tri-c ,Cleveland state even Valley college is better than here to pursue your nursing care career because all you will get from this Hondros location in Independence is a waste of money, lack of real education, and disrespect. You will be met with inconveniences and uncertainty the whole time you are enrolled you will have teachers who abruptly quit during the beginning, the middle, and the end of the semester in multiple different classes. When the teachers abruptly leave the school still, expects you to take an exam, a quiz , or do homework, EVEN IF THEY HAVE NOT PROVIDED YOU THE MATERIAL TO STUDY for there exam, homework ,or quiz. they still expect you to test no matter if the teacher was missing for months they still expect you to take the test and if you fail the exam you fail…if you fail the class you just fail the class. You can appeal and set up a meeting but they will just place blame on you and when you tell them how they have failed you they will get very defensive. They will fail you and make you take the class or classes which aren’t covered by Fasfa at that point and you have to pay your hard earned money to retake them even when they are truly the ones who failed you but they place the blame on you! After spending a year there, I realize Hondros is a scam is set up for you to fail. They like for you to repeat classes so that they can continually take your money because you have to pay for classes out of pocket once you failed them. They have 1 million rules, but have no structure or do not hold theirselves accountable when they fall short, which they continually do. The dean which changes very often (Cheryl L. Biros) just smiles she is very Ditsy and solves no problems to busy decorating her office to care. The assistant Dean ( Elizabeth Dailey ) told me that they don’t technically have to have a professor legally- her words!! and the CEO (Anthony Hibbs is very unhinged ) they are all disrespectful and unhinged very corrupt at this point. I believe the school is only in business because they are accredited by a out of state company that’s allows them to keep their accreditation so long as they shell out big bucks to keep its accreditation. NONE OF THEIR CREDITS TRANSFER..Enrolling here is like signing a deal with the devil. PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS BEWARE no wonder they have I high pass rate you’ll be going for years or months more than you should just to get a LPN CERTIFICATE and they lost their accreditation for theADN RN program so most hospitals and places you would really want to work won’t hire you! I was trained by one of their graduates she HAD NO CLUE WHAT SHE WAS DOING and told me this herself….if you want to be a good nurse who actually received good education...

they seem to care only about reeling people in because tutoring and all available resources goes into students being new. Once you are locked in they only care about the money and throw you to the wolves and basically you end up teaching yourself and paying out thousands just to sit still while they joke about their animals during lecture. put the animals outside so we don't have to hear them bark while we are trying to learn. one instructor had her phone notifications constantly going off while in lab and it was a total distraction especially if we all have ours on silent trying to concentrate. unprofessional. the next semester was less engaged as the teachers weren't as focused on us for learning with retention. it was more like the blind leading the blind as an instructor quit and a new inexperienced one was pushed before us. tutoring was not great and most times they were only available when we were in classes and when we did try to attend it was like a therapy session ( sat in silence). then big assignments were pushed towards the end when we were supposed to be studying for finals. it was totally unorganized and a lot of students felt rushed and unprepared as the end came close. like I said it was the blind leading the blind as we did assignments we did not get credit for (barely moving our grades, yet they said it would help and was imperative to complete) and the grades were posted very slow like weeks out. so if we did assignment #3, for example, it could take up to 3 weeks to see the scores and if we wanted to withdraw from courses, to be safe, but did assignments beforehand we basically did not know whether we should keep going or let it go so that was a major issue because some ended up failing when they missed the option to save themselves and their financial aid within a timeframe. it was terrible. had I known it would've been like this i would have chosen another institution. I understand covid hit hard but it was enough time for them to have a consistent plan and keep the students in the loop properly. I saw other reviews on here about former students not knowing meds because there is no pharmacology class and its true... it is mixed in with fundamentals and i feel it should be a separate course and I don't want to be unprepared and out of place having someone teaching what I should already know. I just hope i pass the nclex because I no longer have financial aid and don't want to mess up my only chance by trying...