2011 May Start LVN program Lone Star Montgomery

HowdyHowdy, LVN · Feb 29, 2012

my ultimate goal is a masters degree as well. i got a 93% on the english composite and my lowest section was a&p with an 80. my application score for this program was
7.7332. i just need pharmacology, sociology, and humanities to be ready for the transition. i'll probably retake english to bring my b up to an a, though. i took all of my classes in washington state so they all had to transfer in. it was a nightmare trying to get everything transferred correctly so i would meet the admissions requirements. i had my application submitted a week or two before the deadline but because a class was evaluated incorrectly, i wasn't able to get it changed until about a half hour before the deadline so my papers weren't faxed in until about 15 minutes before the deadline. talk about sweating bullets...

wow! my situation wasn't quite as precarious as yours but i had a similar problem getting my a&p grade in on time. it was in the day before the deadline...same day i took my hesi! just barely made it..but hey, if it's meant to be, then it's meant to be, right? looks like it was!

MarkTX · Mar 21, 2012

CaseyT, How did you work it so you had a seamless transition between the LVN program and the LVN-RN program? I understand there is a transition class that has to be taken that the RN students don't have to take. When did/do you take that?

HowdyHowdy, LVN · Mar 22, 2012

I haven't done the transition yet, I'm still in LVN school, almost done with level 2 and will be graduating in August.

After that I have about a years worth of prereqs left to be able to apply to the RN transition...AP1 and AP2, Micro, and I think a Kinesiology.

I understand there is a transition class that has to be taken that the RN students don't have to take.

As for this, I've never heard of a transition class that we have to take before applying. It may be something new...I know they have made a lot of changes over the last couple of years. If there is such a class I need to learn more about it! :confused:

MarkTX · Mar 22, 2012

Thanks for the quick response! This is the page that has the class I was referring to AAS Degrees in Nursing. It's called RNSG 1417 Concepts of Nursing Practice I for Articulating Students. They have you taking all of the prereqs the first year plus that class and then start the transition program the second year. I will have all of the prereqs done before the LVN program starts so I just need to take the transition class. Hopefully it will allow me to continue in the the transition program the fall after I finish the LVN program.

HowdyHowdy, LVN · Mar 22, 2012

That is very interesting. I need to go by my nursing director's office and ask her about that. I have never seen that before and they used to have Pharm incorporated into the program. I got some investigating to do...

MarkTX · Mar 22, 2012

Your director is Manijeh, right? What do you think about the instructors? Any advice in regards to them? Pharmacology is corequisite, not a prerequisite. They just suggest taking it before you start.

HowdyHowdy, LVN · Mar 22, 2012

Your director is Manijeh, right?

Manijeh is (I think?) the director out at Montgomery. I know for a fact she used to be one of the professors for the transition program and actually was one of my mom's professors when she went through.

What do you think about the instructors? Any advice in regards to them?

Well, I'm at Kingwood and I can honestly say that I have excellent, excellent professors. We have 3 that we do classroom instruction with and do clinical instruction also. Then there are I think 2 or 3 more that are adjunct that do a couple clinical groups only. As far as advice, my best words of wisdom is to absolutely, positively pull your own weight. Do as much as you can to help yourself, because it is hard and they will notice the people who are working hard and who aren't. So if there comes a time where you falter a little bit or get behind on something or have to miss a couple of days, they will do all they can to help you. Just don't be one of those people that get's accepted and doesn't appreciate the spot in the class and just cruises through it content with C's and D's. Sure, people do that, and they graduate, and they find work, but there really isn't anything good about doing "just enough." It's bad to have that mindset in school and it's even worse to have that mindset when you're taking care of a patient.

Me personally, I had a 4.0gpa and had breezed through every college class that got thrown my way. Tested out of all the basic non-cred pre-reqs. Never had to study in high school and graduated a year early. Never really knew how to study because I never had to. School was always just a breeze for me. Nursing school whipped my ass into shape I can promise you that. Right now I'm sitting at 50/50 A's and B's and I'm glad to have that. I know there are people in there that have straight A's and will carry A's all through school, but this is honestly the hardest thing I've ever had to do, but it is by far the most rewarding...I mean hell, the only reason I'm able to reply to these so fast is because I'm up studying for a Cardiac test we have tomorrow, after coming home from work at 9:00 which combined, will probably leave me completely without sleep. But on the other hand, just yesterday I had my hands on an unborn babies head before the doctor cut the wall of the uterus during a C-section I was standing in on at my clinical hospital. It's really amazing! You will not regret it.