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Nightingale College is a for-profit college, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The college offers four nursing programs, the Associate of Science in Nursing, the Bachelor of Science in Nursing, the Registered nurse-to-BSN Program, and the Master of Science in Nursing Education Program. As of 2021, the college has satellite locations in 12 states.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="alaska">Template:Cite news</ref> In the first 10 years of operations, more than 1000 student graduated.<ref name="grad">Template:Cite news</ref> The College has consented to no longer admitting students into its associate degree program.Template:Why

Nightingale voluntarily withdrew and lost their Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) accreditation on March 15, 2021.<ref name="acen">Accreditation and Approvals</ref><ref>Voluntary Withdrawal From ACEN Accreditation</ref>

History

Nightingale College was formed in 2010, and was originally "training students while seeking accreditation". In its 10 year history, the college has graduated 1141 people.<ref name="est">Brian Maffly,Utah puts nursing programs on notice over tests, Salt Lake Tribune, (October 20, 2012).</ref> <ref name="grad">Nightingale Colleg from 2010-2021. </ref>

In April 2011, the college began offering the Associate of Science in Nursing (ADN) Program. The following year, the college was acquired by Nightingale College, LLC, a private Delaware limited liability company that was formed by Palm Ventures, LLC., a private-equity firm.<ref>Palm Ventures, LLC.</ref>

Expansion

Nightingale has 18 "cohorts" in 18 different "markets" (states). It is rapidly expanding through out the United States.<ref name="alaska"/>

In 2020, Nightingale Nursing College started its first program in Alaska.<ref name="alaska">Nightingale Nursing College lands in Alaska. Nightingale College, a nationally accredited nursing education institution, will be leading its first Alaskan cohort starting May 2020.</ref>

Criticism

Defamation case against a whistleblower

In 2020 Nightingale Nursing College filed suit in Utah against a whistleblower who had created a website against Nightingale claiming defamation.<ref>Nightingale v. Bailey; Case No.: 200904684. First District of Utah. Nightingale was represented by Mauk Miller & Hawkins, PLLC.</ref> A second case was filed in Federal Court on February 19, 2021. <reF>February 19, 2021. Nightingale College v. Bailey. Justia. </ref>

Current president's last college was closed by the US Department of Education

The current Nightingale President is Mikhail Shneyder.<ref> (October 29, 2013), ABC 4 news interviews nightingale’s CEO Mikhail Schneider, nursing college Utah, ABC.</ref><ref>Becoming a Nurse, ABC.</ref><ref name="DOPL">(April 5, 2012), Minutes Utah Education Committee Board of Nursing.</ref><ref>(November 6, 2014), Studio 5 with Brooke Walker, NBC.</ref><ref>Nightingale College Offers New Nursing Education Program</ref>

From 2009 to approximately 2012, Mikhail Shneyder worked at California's Heald College as the Vice President. Due to findings by the Department of Education of misrepresented job placement rates at certain programs of Heald College from July 2010–2015, the department made students eligible to have their debts canceled. Because of a lawsuit alleging that "Heald College...misrepresented job placement rates for certain programs".<ref>How to Apply for Student Loan Forgiveness if You Attended Heald College, United States Department of Education.</ref> Heald College was shut down on April 27, 2015.<ref name="Chron"> Jill Tucker Corinthian, Heald colleges shut down abruptly, San Francisco Chronicle. April 26, 2015.</ref><ref>Information About Debt Relief for Corinthian Colleges Students</ref><ref>Education/Licensing Committee Meeting, State of California, Department of Consumer Affairs, (March 10, 2011) - "Heald College Baccalaureate Degree Nursing Program, Fresno Campus Representing Heald College were Mikhail Shneyder, RN, is Vice President of Allied Health Programs at Heald College Central Administrative Office" </ref><ref>Minutes Utah Education Committee Board of Nursing, (April 5, 2012 - in which Shneyder explains he started working at Nightingale in March, 2012).</ref>

Accreditation

Although the official Nightingale website aggregates the NCLEX passrate,<ref>College Statistics, Nightingale College.</ref> the NCLEX first time pass rate is well below national accreditation benchmark of 80%<ref>Joanne Farley Serembus, EdD, RN, CNE, Improving NCLEX First-Time Pass Rates: A Comprehensive Program Approach, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2155-8256(16)31002-X (January 4, 2016). "...the current benchmark for the. NCLEX-RN® and NCLEX-PN® examinations is an average first- time pass rate of 80% over the most recent 3 years."</ref> at 48.65% for the second quarter of 2017 and 54.5% for the first quarter of 2017.<ref>Utah State Board of Nursing Registered Nursing Programs NCLEX-RN Licensure Examination Results (PDF), Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing.</ref> UPDATE: 3d Quarter 2019 = 46.34%, 2d Quarter 2019 = 50%, 1st Quarter 2019 = 63.38%, and overall 2018 = 53.01% [1].

Other accreditations

The school holds institutional accreditation or is approved by:

• Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES),<ref>ABHES Directory of Accredited Institutions</ref>
• Utah State Board of Nursing.<ref>List of Approved Nursing Programs (Utah only)</ref>
• Nightingale College's BDN and RN-to-BSN programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education<ref>Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education</ref> (CCNE).
• Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.<ref name="street cred">accreditation and approvals</ref>
• National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA).<ref name="street cred"/><ref>National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA) official page.</ref>

• Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.<ref name="street cred"/>

Unlike other more established nursing colleges in the region, Nightingale College is not regionally accredited.<ref>Member Institutions -Directory, Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU).</ref>

Former accreditation

Nightingale voluntarily withdrew and lost their ACEN accreditation on March 15, 2021.<ref name="acen">Accreditation and Approvals</ref><ref>Voluntary Withdrawal From ACEN Accreditation</ref><ref>ACEN</ref> Inc (ACEN), formerly National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission, Inc. (NLNAC). But it has since been lost.<ref>Accreditation and Approvals</ref>

In the Spring 2016, the official status with ACEN was "Affirm Continuing Accreditation, Change Status to Continuing Accreditation with Warning", which is explained as a "Continuing Accreditation with Warning: A measure imposed by the ACEN Board of Commissioners following the determination of non-compliance with three (3) or more Accreditation Standards. Next review and follow-up action(s) are determined by the Board of Commissioners."<ref>Notification of Commission Action Spring 2016 Accreditation Cycle, ACEN.</ref>

In September 2019, Nightingale College had a "Continuing Accreditation for Good Cause", which ACEN defines as the "nursing program has not remedied deficiencies at the conclusion of its maximum monitoring period". ACEN found that "There is a lack of evidence that the expected level of achievement for first-time test-takers during the same 12-month period on the licensure examination has been met."<ref>Notification of Commission Actions Spring 2019 Accreditation Cycle</ref>

The low NCLEX pass rate was one of three failed standards that put Nightingale on continuing accreditation with warning with ACEN.<ref>Notification of Commission Action Spring 2016 Accreditation Cycle, The program’s three-year mean for the licensure examination pass rate has not been at or above the national mean for the same three-year period.</ref>

See also

• For-profit higher education in the United States
• Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut - A second for profit college also owned by Palm Ventures, LLC.<ref name="pv"/>
• Heald College
• Stevens–Henager College

References

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External links

• Official website

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