mamabadger

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1. Will my medical background help me to survive the nursing program?

   mamabadger replied to mrsbreebree's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Nursing school is hard, plain and simple. It is just hard for different reasons for different people. Any knowledge you can bring in will be helpful and even being comfortable around patients should all help, but it will not make the process easy. ...

2. RN Mom trying to locate LPN school in CT for my daughter

   mamabadger replied to RNAPRNGOAL's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Hello, I am attending one of the CT State programs that are run out of 6 of the technical schools. My class graduates in June and the next class starts in August of this year. The tuition is $10,200 plus books and uniforms which will cost another $...

3. Pregnancy and dismissal from nursing school

   mamabadger replied to Bronxtale's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Hello, I am in one of the CT programs and unfortunately there is nothing you can do but not miss any more clinical time. They build in 8 extra clinical days and if you miss more than that you don't make the hours requirement. Our instructors and De...

4. If You Have Any Advice for Students Just Starting Their LPN Program...

   mamabadger replied to Iridescent Orchid's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   First of all congrats to you and best of luck! This perhaps should have been obvious to me, but having been out of school for about 15 years I was a little rusty when I started my LPN program last January. My instructors do not hand tests/exams bac...

5. How can I make up clinical hours?

   mamabadger replied to girlwith1eye's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Wow, guess I should feel lucky that my school has 8 extra clinical days built into the program. We can miss 8 clinical days over the course of the 18 month program, but we have to "make them up" at the end. If you don't miss all 8 then you just don...