"Former nursing students at Brown Mackie College in Tucson are suing the for-profit chain claiming the shoddy training they received has left them unable to work as nurses.
The 11 plaintiffs expected to graduate last year until a state nursing board investigation found some of the school’s faculty weren’t qualified and were using veterinary supplies to teach students how to care for human patients.
The nursing board barred the students from taking the licensing exam for practical nurses and, in a first, ordered Brown Mackie to retrain them at the company’s expense.
The lawsuit claims the retraining also was deficient and that the students still can’t take the licensing exam.
“The students have nothing at all to show for nearly two years of effort and sacrifice, and must start all over again or abandon their hopes of becoming nurses,” says the civil complaint filed May 19 in Pima County Superior Court.
Many were so “devastated” they were referred to a suicide hotline, the complaint says.
The nursing students paid tuition of about $30,000 each for the training that later was deemed deficient, it says."
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