LPN State programs for January, 2010 start

CTPCTstudent · Sep 17, 2009

I think you make a valid point. In their attempt to make it more selective it seems they have made it out of reach of some people. I guess that it will just take time for people to get their college credits and then I bet the enrollment will go back up. Good for those of us who have finished our requirements for this year.

CTPCTstudent · Sep 17, 2009

Thank you both so much for posting! It has been very hard to get any info from people who are in the program now, and even harder to get exact info from the tech schools. For example, I wrote and asked what the "passing" score was for the TEAS for the State LPN programs and I was told by one of the directors that they didn't know. They weren't told by the board that directs all the programs so they couldn't tell me. I think it would help people who are taking the TEAS to know if they scored high enough or if they should take them again. Too little info on the websites.

CTPCTstudent · Oct 13, 2009

Hey Regi,

What is the attendance policy at Kaynor? The reason I ask is I was told that at Hamden you could only miss 5 theory classes and then you were out. I haven't applied because I found out that my married daughter is expecting her first baby in April and I want to be there for the birth and to help them the week afterwards. I am rightly concerned that I could end up missing more than 5 between the birth and helping her afterwards. An absence consists of leaving early, coming in late etc. There is no leeway at all. It seems though that the attendance policy varies from school to school so I figured I would see what your school says. I certainly don't plan on missing, but need to have that option depending on my daughter's pregnancy. With all the rumors about the swine flu going around, you would think that 5 days wouldn't even cover sickness. So even though I have worked for the past 1 1/2 to get my preqs and other courses done, I am not applying at this point. I may considering doing the evening class up in Middletown next September.

CTPCTstudent · Oct 13, 2009

Also Hamden meets every day, all day, through the week. If I read it correctly, at least one of the other schools only meets 3 days a week...

xXCaribbeanDiamondXx · Oct 13, 2009

hi ctptcstudent,

although i am not attending kaynor maybe i can answer your your question for you. as far as i know all of the LPN programs have the same attendance policy because they are all under the same umbrella. i am currently attending howell cheney tech in enfield. while it is true that you are only allowed to missed 5 theorectical days for each semester, every student is allowed to go through an appeal process once, meaning that if i was to miss 6 days one of the semester i would have the option of going in front of "the board" and explain to them why i was absent so many times and what steps i am going to take to prevent this from happening again, and according to our director the students generally will get taken back into the program. however, like i previously stated you can only do this once. the appeal process does not apply to clinical days. we are allowed to miss a total of 8 clinical days and once you go over that that is it you would be out.

the other thing is if you leave early within a 2 hour window then you would get what they call an occurence. the same thing applies if you came to school late within that 2 hour window. if you did this 3 times then you would get an absence.

example: if class starts at 7:45 am in the morning and you came to school at 9:30 am then you would get an occurence. if class ends at 2:30 in the afternoon and you left at 1:30 then you would get an occurence.

if you came to school at 10:00 am in the morning then you would be considered absence.

the same policy applies for a clinical day too.

i know it sounds kind of complicated but it is not.

hope i helped you.

CTPCTstudent · Oct 13, 2009

Thanks for the info. It isn't what the director of the Hamden program sent to me. They seem much more strict in terms of coming in late etc (which I would never do.)

I also was told that classes/clinicals are 5 days a week in Hamden, but someone else from another program (the Hartford one, I think) said her classes were 3 days a week, one being the clinical.

I wonder what they are going to do with all of the possible flu classes that could happen this year.

Thanks alot for your help! I really appreciate it!