Is LPN school hard?

RN34TX · Jan 9, 2006

LPN school is a challenge. You should expect harder grading scales, endless busy work, copious amounts of reading, and unsupportive attitudes.

:yelclap:

Oh yeah!

80% was the cut-off for a "C" in my program, much different than university courses I'd taken prior. Yet LPN school was a supposedly a "technical/vocational" program vs. a "professional" program. Whatever.

In all fairness, I got plenty of support, but the advice to expect unsupportive attitudes is good, because then you won't be disappointed with your instructors.

Some can be very unsupportive, and that's a nice way of putting it.

"Endless busy work" made me think of the multiple, multiple, intricate, nit-picky care plans we had to write. Then I graduated (and was finally getting the hang of care plans) and was told in the workplace that writing care plans was an RN function.

Thanks a lot!

Zari.SVN · Jan 9, 2006

:yelclap:
Oh yeah!
80% was the cut-off for a "C" in my program, much different than university courses I'd taken prior. Yet LPN school was a supposedly a "technical/vocational" program vs. a "professional" program. Whatever.
In all fairness, I got plenty of support, but the advice to expect unsupportive attitudes is good, because then you won't be disappointed with your instructors.
Some can be very unsupportive, and that's a nice way of putting it.
"Endless busy work" made me think of the multiple, multiple, intricate, nit-picky care plans we had to write. Then I graduated (and was finally getting the hang of care plans) and was told in the workplace that writing care plans was an RN function.
Thanks a lot!

You know what you are very correct some of the instructors are very unsupportive because they are not teachers. So they are not trained on the same concept of keeping a positive outlook. If you mess up here it is someone's life we're talking about. Remember they are nurses hired to teach the curriculum some are great others well not so much so. We also had to do alot of nursing care plans to perfection but this is just to get you in the swing of things/get the general idea, as I said get you thinking like a nurse.

greystoke · Jan 9, 2006

OK , I really need help i really want to go in to school witha knowledge of what to excpect. I am currently a Senior in college(Sociology), I Have decided i don't want to do that right now, but may finish later. Well i was sitting talking to one of my friends and she was like LPN school can't be that hard u done been in college for years,( first of all she made it seem like LPN school was breeze, I SO DOUBT THAT!!!)That kinda burn me up , but back to point She's right yes i have but i have never taken a lot of science, only one course in Biology and 2 in Geology, i have load of inEnglish, Sociology, HIstory etc, as i said i am a senior in college.
So i guess my question is LPN school really hard, I Know some say it like the first year of ADN school, and i see some say that the test are hard that first year of a ADN program. Keep in mind my schooling is 18 months and once i finish i will only have to do 1 year in the ADN program it just so darn hard to get in the program, but i heared it easier if u have some type of medical back ground. and u do good on pre req, i think i have about all of those done , but may need a couple of sciences.
Please give your opinions!!:)

The hardest part in nursing school for me were the tests. You have to answer multiple, multiple choice questions, where all answers were correct but you had to decide which answer was the MOST correct. We started out with 60 students and graduated 12.( a 2yr program). It was very hard for some and a breeze for others. Some spent what seemed every waking hour studying while others did not. If you want it bad enough you can do it..There may be moments when you want to pull your hair out...Perseverance will win the prize...20yrs later I'm still doing it....You can too!!!!! Good luck!!

lilcajunnurse · Oct 6, 2007

hard?? yes but you can do it!!!!!!

i enrolled in pn school with 3 small children and no husband. went to school from 730-430 then came home to supper,homework and baths til 9pm then homework time for me til 11pm and slept from 11-3am on test days(up at 3am to study,only quiet time) . we had to maintain an 85% . but i did it and have been an lpn for 13years. i will be enrolling in rn classes in jan '08.

good luck!!!!never hope you can do something...always believe you can!!!

MB37 · Oct 6, 2007

...thread is almost 2 years old...

Godswill · Nov 18, 2007

...thread is almost 2 years old...

yeap loll and i am a currently a LPN. working at:lol2: hospital and LTC

natrgrrl · Nov 18, 2007

So what did you think of LPN school? Was it anything that you expected?

Godswill · Nov 18, 2007

So what did you think of LPN school? Was it anything that you expected?

To be honest, it was the worst and best time of my life. but i made it and i love being a nurse

mel p · Jul 18, 2008

i was just breezing through some posts about how diffcult nursing school is. i will be starting a lpn program in sept 2008 and i am also a single mother of a 2 year old and i work part time. after reading your post it gave me a little encouragement after being worried that i am not going to have anytime to study

hard?? yes but you can do it!!!!!!
i enrolled in pn school with 3 small children and no husband. went to school from 730-430 then came home to supper,homework and baths til 9pm then homework time for me til 11pm and slept from 11-3am on test days(up at 3am to study,only quiet time) . we had to maintain an 85% . but i did it and have been an lpn for 13years. i will be enrolling in rn classes in jan '08.
good luck!!!!never hope you can do something...always believe you can!!!

Butterflybee · Jul 18, 2008

YES!!! but not impossible. Dedicate your time and youll make it through.

Eve Ryone · Jul 20, 2008

Hi.

I wanted to respond even though you have 3 pages of responses. I stopped reading the responses after the first arguement I read about spelling and grammar, so forgive me if what I say has already been written...

I just finished a 1 year LPN course that is given free by the board of education in NYC. One the one hand, there is a lot of anatomy and physiology, developmental psych, and pharmacology. On the other hand, many of the people in my program had to get help with their GED before they graduated. If you are already in college and performing at average college level, you should not have a huge problem. Most of the students who had problems in my program had problems with the basic math needed to calculate drug dosages.

Bottom line is that, IMO, an LPN license is a license to learn on the job. They want to know that you have a broad, general knowledge and that you will be safe while you are actually learnint what the nursing job is. Once you specialize, for instance, if you end up working on a unit that specializes in kidney or cardiac cases, you will rapidly learn what you need to know about renal function and drugs. Nurses on cardiac units don't necessarily know much about SSRI's. Nurses on psych units don't necessarily know much about calcium channel blockers.

Nursing looks like one of the few careers with a somewhat sure future, and is a very tangible way of contributing to the world. I wish you luck.