Anyone else here going to PARK University this year?!!

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Woo hoo!!! Saturday I received my certified letter that I was accepted into the Park accelerated LPN-RN Bridge!! I am so excited!!

I will graduate from my LPN Program June 21st and have RN/ADN Orientation and Enrollment on June 24th!! Wow! :D

Anyone else here going to be joining me?! Are you excited? Nervous? Happy? I know 3 other wonderful women that will be going into the program and would like to know more!! Sign in and introduce yourself!!! Love to get to know you!

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I will be sure to do that! I would love to keep in touch with you. I am curious to know how Park works out for you. You can be my go-to gal when I get discouraged:nuke: I am planning on working Three nights a week waiting tables during the school year. Is that something I will be able to manage while devoting enough time to my studies?

I don't know if you can manage to work three nights a week or not. Do you have children? My husband and I have four kids, my husband is active duty army and works a bunch of hours, and I also worked part time (albeit - very part time) and managed. However, on the nights of clinicals you will NOT be able to work, especially on Monday nights before Tuesday clinicals. You will have several hours of paperwork to do prior to Tuesday's clinical (which often begins at 530 or 6 AM) and you will have to know the information as well, so that when they quiz you on it prior to allowing you on the hospital floor, you won't be sent home from lack of knowledge. It's all about patient safety. You need to know your patient's pathophys, the drugs they are prescribed (why, when, how much, side effects, etc), previous medical history, etc. You won't have to worry about clinicals until around December though. You will have homework. Do it as it will not only help your grade, but aid in the learning process. If you can get through ALL the Med Term and A&P tests prior to full time classes beginning, do it!! It will improve your GPA (as those two classes/tests are EASY) and it will lighten your load come August. At the very least, have all your chapter work done for those two classes. Read the chapters thoroughly. Those two classes will help you in creating a good foundation.

Anyway, please do keep in touch. We can talk about CCC and Park. I'm really going to miss my CCC instructors.

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Well I wish you luck! If you need any support or have questions lemme know! Support from everyone around you will make a world of difference. It will go by so fast I promise! It doesn't feel like it then but you will look back and be like wow. You'll do great!

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thanks for the insight! No i don't have any children. I am planning on working thurs and friday nights and sunday afternoons that way the majority of my week is focused on school. i am thinking if that you survived with four kids than i should have no problem :) props to you thats impressive. I am actually headed out that direction to knock out a med term and a&p test today.

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Well I wish you luck! If you need any support or have questions lemme know! Support from everyone around you will make a world of difference. It will go by so fast I promise! It doesn't feel like it then but you will look back and be like wow. You'll do great!

Amanda, Did you do okay on the NCLEX? Are you ready for Park? Class starts in just over a week?! Can you believe it? I am on vacation right now, but when I get back to Missouri, I will be getting all my ducks in a row for sure!! Can't wait to meet you!

Delana

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Hello! I was wondering if any of you who have already been to Park or are currently preparing to go can tell me a little bit about the schedule there. How many hours a day and how many days a week? Just trying to see if I can rearrange a work schedule around the school.

Thank you,

Cassidy

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