texas careers in san antonio

I am from San Antonio, went to nursing school there and worked there for 3 yrs. I just moved to Denver 3 months ago. Not sure what your ques is but I know they desperately need nurses in San Antonio. Jen

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I graduated from Texas Careers 2 years ago. It is a fantastic school. I learned a lot. The staff is wonderful, and Texas Careers is the only school in San Antonio where nursing students do clinicals at BAMC (no other school in S.A. is allowed). It was a tremendous experience. I strongly recommend Texas Careers. Give them a call. You'll soon find out what I mean.

I know nothing about the Texas Careers school. However, I do know BAMC [Brooke Army Medical Center] is an outstanding medical facility. I work there on my USAR weekend Saturdays, plus did a 2 week AT at BAMC.

Good luck!

My gosh you mean Texas Careers is a legitimate school?!? I was trying to look into it and it seemed like a scam to me. They are not forthcoming with information. I wanted to know if there were evening class offered, program cost, etc. Can anyone tell me any information on them?

It's been a couple weeks since you posted this, but I thought I'd go ahead and give it a try in replying to your question.

I agree that TC was not forthcoming with their info. I went there a couple of weeks ago to get info. Didn't realize I was going to be "interviewed" to go to school there. They gave me a tour around, and it seems fine enough. I finally had to ask, "What days/hours are the classes? Do you have night classes? How much does it cost? Do you have financial aid?" The cost for the LVN program is $20,000. It's 13 months if you go to the day class, which is basically full time (8a-4p). If you go to the night class it takes 18 months and is part time (6p-10p). They do have financial aid, and they don't make you pay it back until 6 months after you graduate. But, you'll have to qualify to 2 separate loans unless you can afford to pay for some of it yourself. They also asked for $1000 up front to get started. I wasn't sure about that one, but then they said they could roll it over into one of the loans, so I don't know. Anyway, I didn't sign up yet. I'm still thinking about it. It's great that it's so fast, but I want to go to the RN program some day and by not doing ALL of my pre-reqs there I don't want to get screwed in the long run. I still need to find out more about that.

Well, if you do end up reading this, I hope I helped a little more.

Why would you pay 20k to attend a private LVN program as opposed to a couple of grand to attend an LVN program at one of the junior colleges out of curiousity?

B/c basically I will have to start from the very beginning with taking all the pre-reqs, etc., and then go to the LVN school, so I just thought this would be better/easier, ya know? But, now that I've thought about it a little more I've decided not to. It seems that it really isn't worth it in the long run if I'm only going to be making UP TO $15/hr. I might as well do it the old fashioned way. I want to eventually lead up into the RN program, but I'm thinking if I were to attend TC that might hinder me getting into the RN program later.

Anyway, in thinking about it, I don't really think it's a good idea. I've gone ahead and applied with a local comm. college and will just start from the bottom there. Probably just go full steam ahead to the RN program, bypassing the LVN thing.

Gauge-Also, just to give a thought, some of the community colleges alone are so competitive or have such long wait lists that you can do the private program for LVN and then a bridge program and be practicing before some students even START the community college programs. So then I wonder (looking at the big picture) although it is more upfront, it is financially, better to do it because you will be making more sooner. Just something to think about.