I LOVE it. I LOVE LOVE it.

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Hi all,

Just wanted to post something to encourage those who are about to start their LPN program. OK.....That's a lie. I just wanted to gush about how much I love being a nursing student. My school is a "discovery learning" school which means we don't have teachers, and I am not too crazy about that. But, I love the material and I love studying it and learning it. I think if you have a genuine interest in it it helps. I must say though, I am terrified of clinicals. TERRIFIED. Hopefully, the more I learn, all the more confident I will be when the time comes.

Our advisors are always there, they are all RN's. I guess if we have a question about something we just ask. This is all I know so I don't really know what it is "supposed" to be like. Of course we are observed during clinicals lol I didn't mean to give the impression that we just show up and run wild.....HAHA

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Specializes in Hospice / Ambulatory Clinic.

Don't you find lonely? I would imagine I would miss all the other students. Don't get me wrong I study best on my own but there is nothing like relaxing on breaks with other students

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There are quite a few of us there. We are all just at different points in the program. We have a set number of seat time to get or we breach (july for me was 84 hrs) so we see each other quite a bit, even though I must say I am starting to doubt that I am going to bond with anyone in this program, there is SO much cattiness.....

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Hello Everyone, I went for my last interview at Boston Reed for the LVN program on fri the 25th and the teacher seemed like she knew what she was talking about and the program director seemed nice.. we were also interviewed by students that are about to graduate from the program which I thought was nice.. I think I have a good chance of getting in and I will hear if I got in or not by this fri, August 1st!! I am so nervous... Everyone kept on talking about how much time we are going to have to spend doing homework and I am ready for whatever needs to be done I just hope I will be able to keep my job... :typing

I AM FREAKING OUT!!!!!

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Family Practice.

Its amazing to look back on your first day of clinical towards the end of your program and realize the progress you've made

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

It does sound like your program is unique; at least it is new to me. When do you go to clinicals and how often do you go?

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Our first clinicals start 4 months from our start date, every month has a different number of clinical hours.

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Specializes in Hospice / Ambulatory Clinic.

Wow 4 months seems along time to wait. We get let loose next week and its our 7th week ( but those were looooong weeks lol)

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My clinicals start on the 13th week but my program is 15 mos long. I can do it in a shorter time frame like 12 or if I had no job or life I might be able to do it in 9 lol

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I try the site and is not working do you know where can I get the information for this school? Thank you so much!:)

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Hi enid,

You can go to netech.edu. I looked it up real quick.

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Ill be happy to explain (the best that I can anyway.) The "bookwork" part of school is like none other. They give us our assignments for the month, which is our monthly contract, and we just do them with the resources we are given. Which is the books we got at the beginning of the program. We do not have any classes, lectures, workshops, etc., We do not have teachers, we have "advisors" who are assigned to us to give us our contracts, review our hours, etc., I think we are allowed to ask questions but only if we have exhausted every other arena for an answer (books, dvd's, internet). We do labs on our skills, after having read about them, watched tapes,etc to be checked off on. Sometimes the advisor will do a demo but I haven't been lucky enough yet to have a demo on the actual module I am on. I think the clinical part is just like any other school. As much as I love learning the material, I do kind of wish I had the chance to listen to someone speak about experiences, something that the book might not tell you, or get a personal opinion on something. At the beginning of the first month they gave us a paper explaining why self-discovery learning is a good idea and it said it is beneficial to nursing students because it promotes skills such as time management, critical thinking, and decision making.

Wow, I cannot imagine trying to learn on my own. I started LPN course in Sept. 2010 and will graduate Feb. 2012. I love it too. We go on stages, that last 6 months will be spent in clinical settings. How about you?:yeah:

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