Looking for LPN school in Colorado

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I am looking for a LPN program in Colorado. I heard Emily Griffith has a great program but I want to later move into RN program. I also checked in Regis What do you think?

Jamie, thanks for the link, that is helpful. I'm more interested in the daily/weekly schedule so my wife and I can coordinate dropping off and picking up the kids and that sort of thing. But I guess we'll find out eventually :)

I did go into MetroConnect and look up the course schedule so that tells what days/times the classes are. Although it would be helpful to know which classes we are going to take.

Dennis

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I think, Dennis, that you and I have a common interest and that is in finding out the actual times for the scheduled classes. Both due to daycare stuff.

Good news is I took advanced pathology in graduate school and it is not hard at all! Plus I still have the book so if we need another reference we've got it!

Happy Thanksgiving to you both!

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Oh and thanks so much for the link Jamie!

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I think, Dennis, that you and I have a common interest and that is in finding out the actual times for the scheduled classes. Both due to daycare stuff.

Yup. My kids are in school and there is before and after care available, but it's a matter of coordinating schedules with my wife so we can minimize how much we need to use it so we can save some money. Plus we need to figure out the activity shuttling that we need to do.

As best I can tell from the schedules, our classes are going to be on Wed and Thursdays, with Health Assessment on Mondays for the first 8 weeks.

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Yup. My kids are in school and there is before and after care available, but it's a matter of coordinating schedules with my wife so we can minimize how much we need to use it so we can save some money. Plus we need to figure out the activity shuttling that we need to do.

As best I can tell from the schedules, our classes are going to be on Wed and Thursdays, with Health Assessment on Mondays for the first 8 weeks.

Wow that doesn't sound bad at all. :yeah:

Makes me think I might be able to keep my job. I really don't want to quit because of the salary, but want to quit because I am burnt out. Hmmmm? Where did you look this up? Via the link Jamie provided?

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Keep in mind that doesn't include any clinicals. I'd be surprised if we don't start clinical at some point during the semester, but I really don't know.

Log on to MetroConnect and go into the registration area and then look up classes. Then select the accelerated nursing classes (which conveniently is the first subject). It shows all of the classes, not just ours, so I had to guess a bit, but based on how they are listed, that seemed to make sense.

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I can't imagine we would start clinicals the first semester, afterall I think most would need some pathophys/pharmacology to make any kind of knowledge based decisions. My husband is a surgeon (and some friends of mine currently attend med school) and they didn't start clinicals until well after they had plenty of bio classes. Of course, I am not sure how nursing school works. Maybe, since it is accelerated clinicals need to start asap?

Either way it doesn't sound as daunting as I thought it would, which takes some of the stress off! I do wish I could keep my job though, even on a part time basis...for the money of course.

I will probably eat my words "doesn't sound daunting" half way through the semester. LOL

What part of Denver do you live in? Where do your kids attend daycare/school? Maybe once we got to know each other we could help one another. I know my husband is rarely home, so even in school I will be the primary caregiver to Alice (my babies name). I am actually a single mom that happens to be married. Challenging to say the least.

Have you heard back from Regis yet?

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Regis starts clinicals in week 6 (I think it is) so that's why I'm thinking we'll probably start them at some point in the first semester. But we'll find out soon enough. I agree it doesn't sound too bad, but I'm sure it will be a lot more work than it seems right now. I really wish I went to an info session :)

I live near I-25 and Hampden - how about you? My kids go to a charter school that's not too far. I haven't heard anything else from Regis and I'd be very surprised if I get in before Metro starts. I think most people who drop out won't do it until it's much closer to the start date in May.

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Oh wow, 6 weeks. Well that should be a good time. LOL

I live at Speer and Logan behind the 9 news building. Hopefully I will get some clinicals at Denver Health given I live so close.

So if you got into Regis would you drop Metro? I mean even if you had already started at Metro?

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It would depend on how I felt Metro was going. If it starts off well and I have a good feeling about it, then I'll tell Regis to drop me from the alternate list. A lot my reason for preferring Regis was financial, and I need to give my notice in at work before Christmas to start at Metro. So once that happens, financially I'll be much better off going to Metro since it's cheaper. And if I've already started at Metro, there would have to be some serious problems for me to lose a semester's tuition. So there would have to be something pretty major going on for me to drop out after I start.

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Hi Everyone,

I am going to Metro this Jan too. I am 28, live in Northglenn (hope to move back to Denver), and I work in an infectious disease lab in Centennial. I applied to other schools also, but I want to go to Metro for various reasons. Like others, I also want to go on to become a CRNA after Metro and hope that Metro will start me on that path. Outside of work I like to run, camp, and hang with my wife. I was thinking that we could start a facebook group if others were on, thoughts? Other than that I have not received anything from Metro lately. I did fill out financial aid paperwork and received some information on that (but all based on an average Metro student not nursing).

Nick

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Nick, a FB group sounds like a good idea!

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