LPN State programs for January, 2010 start

Hey Sandy!
Kaynor is in Waterbury, we use to meet at NVCC, but now are back at the high school. Nina, you are right about people not applying due to urban legends. Nina, we are doing the SAME thing about remediation. It is not based on grade, we ALL have to stay instead of going home during pysch.... and yes, we have NCLEX packets to review. We havent been in the nursing homes.... no thats not true, our first rotation has been in the nursing homes. All of the others we have been in the hospitals. We pass meds and do treatments, wound care, etc.... we have leadership rotation too. Well one clinical group has it while the rest of us are in the hospitals. They go to Waterbury extended care and have to do the floor. (In the hospitals we all have ONE patient each who we do meds, treatments, document, but its only ONE patient) Leadership we will be doing the entire floor... Tommorrow I am in clinical at Waterbury hospital, I have a patient with wound care (I havent done wound care yet) and pass meds to him as well. So off I go preparing.

Will check back this weekend.

Regi

Hi Regi..
I can only speak about what my school is doing and no other place. The remediation thing at my school requires that you have to have an average of 85 or more in order not to stay if you do not have that 85 average and you leave at 11am your basically absent for that day because you are missing more than 2 hours for that day. We have been going to both the hospitals and nursing homes because of the contract that they have with St. Francis Hospital, we only get two days with them and the other day we have to go back to the nursing home. Every group had to meet with their clinical instructor yesterday and we were told what we would be doing and what is expected from us. We are not in the leadership rotation yet and we have to give meds on 2 patients (However this is rotated between students, every day 2 students will give meds while the other students do their basic care, do finger sticks and give insulin if the patient requires coverage). As far as i was told leadership is suppose to give you a flavor of what it is to be given meds and doing treatments on multiple patients (a little taste of what is to be when we obtain our licenses and start working)(we were told from jump street that you will not have only ONE patient in leadership). All of our clinical groups will be doing leadership at the same time. All things will not be the same at all of the LPN programs certain things are up to the discretion of the program director.
For Example: At our school in order to graduate we are required to do a clinical porfolio where we have to go to AA meetings, support groups, and a birthing class. Follow a pregnant woman throughout her pregnancy, go with that pregnant woman to at least one doctors appointment and do numersous papers about the signs of preg and everything that comes with being pregnant and blah blah blah,Interview an elderly person, interview a person with any type of dependency and do a paper on alcoholism etc. and guess what they students at Howell Cheney Tech are not required to do this..
Students at howell cheney tech are required to be at clinical at 6:45 in the morning. at my school its 7:00 am
Not everything is set in stone
Anyway's i am going to bed --> just noticed i posted about 6 days worth of reply's in one night if i did not know any better i would think i did not have anything else to do..lol (Got clinical in the morning)

Hi CTPTCstudent,

Although i am not attending Kaynor maybe i can answer your your question for you. As far as i know all of the LPN programs have the same attendance policy because they are all under the same umbrella. I am currently attending Howell Cheney Tech in Enfield. While it is true that you are only allowed to missed 5 Theorectical Days for each semester, every student is allowed to go through an appeal process once, meaning that if i was to miss 6 days one of the semester i would have the option of going in front of "The Board" and explain to them why i was absent so many times and what steps i am going to take to prevent this from happening again, and according to our director the students generally will get taken back into the program. However, like i previously stated you can only do this once. The appeal process does not apply to clinical days. We are allowed to miss a total of 8 clinical days and once you go over that that is it you would be out.
The other thing is if you leave early within a 2 hour window then you would get what they call an occurence. The same thing applies if you came to school late within that 2 hour window. If you did this 3 times then you would get an absence.
Example: if class starts at 7:45 am in the morning and you came to school at 9:30 am then you would get an occurence. If class ends at 2:30 in the afternoon and you left at 1:30 then you would get an occurence.
If you came to school at 10:00 am in the morning then you would be considered absence.
The same policy applies for a clinical day too.
I know it sounds kind of complicated but it is not.
Hope i helped you.