LPN State programs for January, 2010 start

2ndcareerchange · Sep 16, 2009

Hey everyone,

Just a quick tibbit I overheard today. The instructors were talking about how they only recieved 20 applications at Kaynor. If you dont have yours in, get it in now. Also they closed the Stamford program due to lack of interest. Do you believe that?? Our new instructor is from Stamford and she said they only had about 30 applications and ended with about 20 that transferred to Bridgeport. Anyway, send in your apps if you are interested in the LPN state program, and also apply for the state RN too. Last August, we have about 6 students leave our program to attend the state RN program. They called them in January too. It worked out for me, they called me in to fill one of those spots. *** Sandy, hope you sent yours in.*** oh and the bad news is the program is no longer at the Naugautuck Valley Campus. They moved us back to the Kaynor campus this fall. And yes we have to wear scrubs as our "uniforms" while on campus. We really dont see the highschoolers, but we miss the college campus. The new classrooms are roomier, bright, and new so that's the plus side.

Regi

CTPCTstudent · Sep 16, 2009

Hey Regi,

Great to hear from you!! Applications are being taken through October for the state LPN programs, so people may be waiting to send in their applications until they have taken the TEAS for the last time. I did well on it when I took it the first time (97 percentile) but am probably taking it again to up my math grade. I would be applying to Hamden, but where is the Kaynor campus?

How are you finding the classes - especially teaching the placement of tubes etc? Do you find in your clinicals that you are well prepared before you start them?

HartfordSPN, LPN, LVN · Sep 16, 2009

Its not just the LPN program that is down the entire high school is closed down for the next two years according to this article that was found on the school's website.

http://www.cttech.org/central/main-news/Wright-Tech-7-09/wright-tech.pdf

very very sad

Nina, SPN

CTPCTstudent · Sep 16, 2009

wow thanks for posting that link! Are you a student in one of the state LPN programs? If so, where and what do you think of it?

HartfordSPN, LPN, LVN · Sep 17, 2009

wow thanks for posting that link! are you a student in one of the state lpn programs? if so, where and what do you think of it?

yes i am a current student at prince tech lpn program in hartford. i personally like the program i feel like i learning what i am suppose to so far. i have been getting decent scores on all the mock nclex that we have been taking so far. however, there is this new rule that they decided to start implementing in this final semester that is p***ing me off so bad:banghead:. currently the passing grades for all classes is a 75 but if your average is not 85 or more you have to stay after school on tuesdays for remediation (and its mandatory!!!). remediation classes consist of the instructor doing a test review which usually last for about 20 minutes and remainder pf the day the students are doing nclex stuff on the computer. on tuesdays we get out at 11am but if you dont have that 85 average or more you have to stay until 2:30 pm or that time will be counted against you. i think it would have been a good idea for it to be mandatory for students who got below a 75 average because of what the pass mark is.

we just moved back to the actual high school this semester and the building and classrooms are beautiful, the only thing i miss is that where we were at before it was there was much more leniency in reference to what we wore to class (now we have to wear those ugly olive scrubs everyday, they should have stuck to the blue and white ones), we had much more option of places to go get lunch now we are stuck with cafeteria food(the cafeteria food sucks)

other than that i like the program, clinicals are not too far and we are getting some wonderful hospital experiences. after this clinical rotation which ends october 2nd we will be starting our leadership rotation which basically is that we wont be doing am care anymore we will only be passing meds on like 6 patients, doing treatments for an entire unit, shadowing nurses, making assignments etc.

but anyways let me cut out my blabbing lol..:chuckle

75 more clinical/lecture days to go till graduation yaaayy me:yeah:

:redbeathenina, spn:redpinkhe

CTPCTstudent · Sep 17, 2009

Thank you I really appreciate anything you can share. Do you know if the remediation is for all the state tech schools, or just the one that you are attending?

HartfordSPN, LPN, LVN · Sep 17, 2009

honestly i am not certain if all of them are doing the remediation class but i do know that howell cheney lpn program is doing it too because my friend goes to that campus..

CTPCTstudent · Sep 17, 2009

okay thanks. I wonder why more people aren't applying now? I had heard that it was pretty competitive to get into the programs.

HartfordSPN, LPN, LVN · Sep 17, 2009

i don't know if it had anything to do with the fact that they have a more strict criteria to get in (requiring the applicants to have college credits in math 137, english 101, and intro psych)maybe that have something to do with it because i mean come on the state schools are like 6x cheaper than the private institutions. when we had orientation our director told us that over 300 people had applied that year to prince tech alone. and this year they only recieved 60 applications so far.i think a lot of people get intimidated and don't wanna be bothered. for example one of the nursing homes where i was doing clinicals in last semester there is an aide that works there per diem now she expressed interest to me about the lpn program and that she had tried to get in back in 2007 but she was not accepted into the program. i gave her my teas study guide and the number to call the school and the website to solicite more information. i saw her last week at my new clinical site and i asked her how everything was going with the application process and stuff. she told me that she called my school on numerous occassion and someone told her that the class was already filled for jan 2010, and i was like are you serious:eek:. now to be honest i did not bellieve her because it did not make sense to me that would be still testing and the seats would already be filled. so monday when i went back to school i asked the secretary and our program director if the program was already filled because i know someone that was interested and wanted to know. my director literally laughed at me and said that was not true because they havent even sent out any acceptance letter yet and they wont be doing that until december. so today when i went back to clinical i told her that she should apply because my director said they havent filled any seats yet and she still had time to send in her stuff. all of a sudden she started yelling:nono: at me (because she knew she was caught in a lie)and telling me to mind my own business and that she didnt see what the big deal was because anyone can push a med cart and that lpn's dont make squat (this was the first time i had ever laughed:lol2: at someone in a professional setting) in all honesty i wanted to ask her if so was the case why is'nt she pushing one then? :confused: . anyways my friend who is in the program with me told me that she knew her and that she did not have any college credits. so this goes back to my original opinion i think maybe a lot of people do not have these credits to get in.

2ndcareerchange · Sep 17, 2009

Hey Sandy!

Kaynor is in Waterbury, we use to meet at NVCC, but now are back at the high school. Nina, you are right about people not applying due to urban legends. Nina, we are doing the SAME thing about remediation. It is not based on grade, we ALL have to stay instead of going home during pysch.... and yes, we have NCLEX packets to review. We havent been in the nursing homes.... no thats not true, our first rotation has been in the nursing homes. All of the others we have been in the hospitals. We pass meds and do treatments, wound care, etc.... we have leadership rotation too. Well one clinical group has it while the rest of us are in the hospitals. They go to Waterbury extended care and have to do the floor. (In the hospitals we all have ONE patient each who we do meds, treatments, document, but its only ONE patient) Leadership we will be doing the entire floor... Tommorrow I am in clinical at Waterbury hospital, I have a patient with wound care (I havent done wound care yet) and pass meds to him as well. So off I go preparing.

Will check back this weekend.

Regi

HartfordSPN, LPN, LVN · Sep 17, 2009

hi regi..

i can only speak about what my school is doing and no other place. the remediation thing at my school requires that you have to have an average of 85 or more in order not to stay if you do not have that 85 average and you leave at 11am your basically absent for that day because you are missing more than 2 hours for that day. we have been going to both the hospitals and nursing homes because of the contract that they have with st. francis hospital, we only get two days with them and the other day we have to go back to the nursing home. every group had to meet with their clinical instructor yesterday and we were told what we would be doing and what is expected from us. we are not in the leadership rotation yet and we have to give meds on 2 patients (however this is rotated between students, every day 2 students will give meds while the other students do their basic care, do finger sticks and give insulin if the patient requires coverage). as far as i was told leadership is suppose to give you a flavor of what it is to be given meds and doing treatments on multiple patients (a little taste of what is to be when we obtain our licenses and start working)(we were told from jump street that you will not have only one patient in leadership). all of our clinical groups will be doing leadership at the same time. all things will not be the same at all of the lpn programs certain things are up to the discretion of the program director.

for example: at our school in order to graduate we are required to do a clinical porfolio where we have to go to aa meetings, support groups, and a birthing class. follow a pregnant woman throughout her pregnancy, go with that pregnant woman to at least one doctors appointment and do numersous papers about the signs of preg and everything that comes with being pregnant and blah blah blah,interview an elderly person, interview a person with any type of dependency and do a paper on alcoholism etc. and guess what they students at howell cheney tech are not required to do this..

students at howell cheney tech are required to be at clinical at 6:45 in the morning. at my school its 7:00 am

not everything is set in stone

anyway's i am going to bed --> just noticed i posted about 6 days worth of reply's in one night if i did not know any better i would think i did not have anything else to do..lol (got clinical in the morning)