LVN curriculum allows time to work?

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Specializes in Dialysis.

Hey y'all, I am starting a private school (read:expensive) LVN program soon and am worried about the workload. Being an LVN program (12-16 months), does this mean that everything is accelerated, or rather condensed? Am wonderig how my studying time will differ from all the 2+ hrs a night that I see people posting on...Must work to support myself, so I wil be working 4 days out of M-F, with school being t/th nights and all day Sat. Am dedicated to the cause, can't wait to start, but what can I expect?

Basically, I just want to know,:uhoh3: are the schedules set up the same (ie., 3-5 classes per semester? quarter?) as would be in an ADN full-time program? Just want to know what to expect! I am coming to the realization that I will not have a life for the next 16 months.

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Specializes in OB/Gyn, L&D, NICU.

I would like to know too. Does anyone have any answers? Will it be difficult for me with my given experience?

My grandfather was a surgeon & my mom an RN. I have taught childbirth education classes & was a midwife's assistant & delivered babies. I have taken A&P, Chemistry, Nutrition, Biology, & studied medicine on my own. Will an LVN still be hard?

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I attended a 12-month LVN program at one of those private programs back in 2005. Some students maintained employment by working night shifts as CNAs at nursing homes, but the majority of people in this full-time program did not work.

Many of these private LVN programs also offer 18-month or 24-month part time programs that allow the student to continue to work full-time while attending school. My friend's cousin currently attends one of these schools in the DFW area while keeping her full-time job as a case worker.

Will an LVN still be hard?
I completed an LVN program 4 years ago, and I am slated to graduate from an RN-ASN program in a few months. In my humble opinion, the LVN program was more difficult and operated on a faster pace.
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Normally in the accelerated LVN program, you can expect to take five classes in the first semester and they are usually all lecture classes. I'm sure people do work, but it would be difficult to work a lot of hours since you need so much study time and good sleep!

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Specializes in Dialysis.

at my school it was 2 classes at a time. I was in a 2 nights/week and every Saturday program. I worked full-time. I think pretty much everyone in my class had a FT job.

It was fast-paced and it was teach yourself the majority of the material.

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