Advice for LPN school

[Nurse2B 2012]

Hi everyone!! Well I'm so excited that I got accepted into the Lpn program at Northwest community college. I am happy but also a little nervous. I've taking most of my pre-reqs like A&p, biology, and algebra. The fact that I found A&p to be hard scares me a little. I passed both A&P I & II with Bs while I worked two jobs so that might hav been why. I've been told that the pre-reqs are the easiest part of nursing school so I can just imagine how stressed I will be. Well all I would like to know if any of you that are in LPN school right now or have been accepted, feel as nervous a I do? I really want to b a nurse so I won't let this stop m from achieving my goals but it helps to know I'm not the only one feeling this way.

[NursinginProgress]

I graduated my LPN program back in July as valedictorian, took the NCLEX PN recently and passed. There's a few things that I want to pass on to those that need the advice.

* Read your materials before it is being lectured, I know it sounds hard at first but you'll get the hang of it.

*purchase a NCLEX review book like the Saunders Comprehensive NCLEX PN 4th edition - It's green and whenever you go over a topic in class in the books provided, go in the review book and read over the same topic in there and WRITE IT DOWN!!

Other than leave your drama at home, eat a decent breakfast, don't be late for class and of course there will be catty people in class to ignore, focus on the reason why you are in the program in the first place.

You are not there to make friends, you are not there for gossip or to kiss the teachers' rear, YOU ARE THERE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE A NURSE and no other reason why. When the chips are down and you're almost burnt out, look at yourself in the mirror and say, "THIS IS FOR ME. FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION. NOW DRAG YOUR A** IN THERE AND SHOW THEM HOW IT'S DONE."

Good luck, God Bless, Happy Nursing, Live Long and Prosper and May the Force Be With You.

[JSER305]

Hmmm...I just passed my LPN boards, but I only went to school for about 14 months....I did go through a technical school though...some community colleges offer the program with an associates degree...I think that would be the better way to go...If you graduate from a technical school and don't have college credits like me...then I would have to take those courses that LPN's in community colleges have already taken....the best part of being an LPN from a technical school is that in one more year after you're done you can get your RN with an AA degree...all you have to do after that is finish getting your BA without having to worry about taking boards or anything....