U of P LPN to BSN

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Has anyone taken University of Phx's LPN to BSN program? Any comments, costs, hours, length location, etc? Thanks! I am trying to look at all my options.

I dont know anything about the program, but foolishly I thought this u of p online school wasn't real until I went to my friends graduation from there in May 2007 here in chicago. She studied human services. But I did see nurses graduating also. So that made me a believer from there on about the online schools. :nurse:

I called U of P a while back. You must be an LPN for one year (if I remember correctly it might be 6 months) before applying for the LPN to BSN program. Most of the credits do transfer.

Specializes in Cardiac.

You have to be an RN for a year to qualify for their RN-BSN program, so I wouldn't be surpised if you needed to be an LPN for a year as well.

They say the work history is so that they don't have to have a clinical component in their BSN program.

Specializes in Med/Surg/Tele/Acute Rehab.

Cost?

Specializes in Med-Surg, Step-down and ICU.

The tuition increase is effective July 1 2008 and nursing classes are $415 per credit and electives are $375 per credit.

It is expensive but if you have most of your prereques it is worth it. I am going and will have no wait to attend this fall. I am finishing my electives this sumer and will be graduating LPN-BSN in Feb 2011. The classes are one day a week for 5 weeks each. Really doable!

Specializes in Hospital, Psych, Corrections, Case Mgmt..

i am currently enrolled in the program at the phoenix, az based campus and graduate in about 18 months or so. the lpn to bsn is not online at all. there are multiple classes to attend that are broken up into 4 hour blocks every tuesday pm. there is a minimum work experience required for entrance (i believe it is at least one year). it is definitely expensive, but you pay for the convenience. we do have clinicals that correlate with med-surg, psych, peds, ob, and icu that happen for 10-12 hour shifts on saturdays during those classes. to be honest i haven't been super impressed, but the ends sometimes justify the means. how many other places give you credit (i mean professionally and intellectually) for having been an lpn? you go straight through to the bsn. there is no asn along the way so you can't test out and to the nclex-rn until after you graduate. once you get the pre-req's done and are in the actual program, it's about 22 months straight through with no breaks except for the week of christmas. if you have any questions, feel free to email or message me.

Do you have to pass HESI or some other test? What are the pre-reqs?

Specializes in Med-Surg, Step-down and ICU.

There is no entrance exam, if you have credits from another school they may transfer in so you have less electives to take for the pre reqs. I would suggest speaking with admissions because depending on your school experience(if you have one) you will need more or less pre-reqes. You will need the same type of pre reqs as a community college ADN program ie.English,Chem,Math,electives so if you do not have them all they will tell you what you need and schedule them for you to take. It is a very user friendly process.

Specializes in Cardiac Care.

I would recommend taking as many of the pre-reqs and co-reqs that you can at a CC rather than UOP to save money. I'd imagine then the LPN to BSN program would be more cost effective. Plus UOP is very liberal credit transfer wise.

My :twocents:

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