Re: Athabasca University?
Athabasca is a university and their courses are university courses. Depending on your interests and abilities some are challenging, others are not. I believe that they also require a certain number of employed hours as a LPN to be admitted to the programme. For some reason I'm thinking it's around 1700 hours.
Before even attempting to do the degree, you need to have CLPNA assess your education and determine if you have sufficient education to be granted a practice permit.
All clinical placements are done at hospitals around the province. The practice permit is required to be current throughout all of the time spent at Athabasca U.
So you will be required to have a practice permit in AB and whatever is required in Quebec. The permit runs around $250/year and include your insurance. You need to work a certain number of hours each year as a LPN to maintain it's validity.
I've had several co-workers attempt to do this. The most successful had all of her university transfer courses completed prior to applying. Others have dropped out and done the courses like English and Stats at local colleges and transferred them to AU and resumed the course of study.
You will only be a LPN once you write and pass the CPNRE. Until then you hold a PN diploma. That's where the "licensed" is added to the title.
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then i can send my transcripts to find out if i need 2 do extra courses. to be a qualified LPN.
