Lower Columbia College LPN2RN online

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Hi! I'm looking to connect with former and current students of LCC's LPN2RN online program. I just got accepted and am anxiously awaiting orientation day. If there's anyone that lives in Skagit/Island county and have gone through the program (or will be), I'd love to talk with you! :)

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

Hi! I just graduated from the online LPN to RN at LCC (August 2015 graduation). It was fine. No worse than any other program. I had my ups and downs, clinicals were especially frustrating. But I would do it again in a heartbeat because it got me to my RN. There were quite a few students from various areas of Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, and suburbs. They either carpooled to labs and clinicals or got hotels in Longview. There were some clinical sites in Olympia, Centralia, and Bellingham.

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I just got accepted into the Lpn to Rn online at LCC as well!! I actually live in portland. Do you know if they have clinicals closer to my area? Any tips to succeed? I'm thinking of working part time (like 2 days a week) do you think that is possible? Sorry for all the questions:)

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I just got accepted into the Lpn to Rn online at LCC as well!! I actually live in portland. Do you know if they have clinicals closer to my area? Any tips to succeed? I'm thinking of working part time (like 2 days a week) do you think that is possible? Sorry for all the questions:)

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Hi everyone! I live in Vancouver, WA and I will be starting the online program. Super excited I am counting down the days to orientation. I'm hoping I will be able to work during the last quarter, anybody know if people had clinicals down in the Portland metro?

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That's good to hear about the Bellingham clinical site. I live on Whisbey Island so that's a much more doable drive than the Longview option. By the way, congratulations on getting your RN!

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Hi everyone! I live in Vancouver, WA and I will be starting the online program. Super excited I am counting down the days to orientation. I'm hoping I will be able to work during the last quarter, anybody know if people had clinicals down in the Portland metro?

i love Portland and if I lived that way, I'd want to go down there too :) congratulations as well!

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I just got accepted into the Lpn to Rn online at LCC as well!! I actually live in portland. Do you know if they have clinicals closer to my area? Any tips to succeed? I'm thinking of working part time (like 2 days a week) do you think that is possible? Sorry for all the questions:)

Congratulations to you too!

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Question for you...how good were your pre req scores? They say at least a C average but what do you really need to have?

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I had all A's in the prereq scores after retaking some of the classes. However, according to the application guidelines, the program only looks to see if you passed with C's and have all other requirements met then uses the TEAS score for their final decision making process. I got a 70 on my TEAS which I was very disappointed in. I still got in though! Another plus for LCC is that the prereq scores don't expire like other schools. This makes it much easier for people that took the classes a long time ago. Hope that helps!

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

Hi! I couldn't reply to your PM yet, not enough posts on here, so I thought I would reply here:

First of all, I am so sorry I did not see this until today. Congratulations on getting accepted. I heard it was really competitive this year. I didn't think it was terribly hard, there was just a ton of reading. I worked 50 hours a week during the program, M-F 40 hrs and then one 8-10 hr shift a weekend at my second job. It was really hard, but I managed. You can definitely work during the online part. In the summer when you start the on campus and clinicals you might have to be more flexible. I got an urgent care job to get me through and was able to still work my usual schedule through all of the summer stuff. Phew!

You will need all of the books! Last year they changed some on us when we actually got to the orientation from what they had mailed in our acceptance letter so I had to send some back and get others. But I found old editions on Amazon for super cheap anyway. They do not post any lectures, they do post the powerpoints from their on campus, but they are useless. Don't even bother with them ever. All of your test questions come out of your textbooks. The Lewis text is your number one best friend. Study the questions at the ends of the chapters, sometimes they use them on tests.

DO NOT. I repeat. DO NOT forget to take a weekly quiz. You will have one due every Sunday. It is open book, but it is timed so you have about 1-2 minutes per question, so don't expect to not study all week and then just take the test open book. You don't have time to look everything up. I know a girl who forgot one weekly quiz and they dropped her and would not let her back into the program at all, so don't miss one! It goes super fast so don't get behind.

They lost a clinical site (PHSW in Vancouver) this summer due to them switching to epic and declining students, so they had all Oregon and Vancouver folks at St Johns in Longview. They don't have clinical sites in Portland usually, but this is different every year. Maybe you guys will get lucky. Preceptor sites are varied, some got ED, some hospice, some ICU, some med-surg, some cardiac, etc.

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