online LVN program?

deemarys · Mar 13, 2009

I don't think you can do the LVN program in 1 year part time. The program that I am in is 12 months but I am in school every day full time except weekends. The program is very intense so since you can't do the 1 year/full time program I would do the part time option.

If you can get it on the weekend program I would do that, it will not be 1 year though. I don't know anything about the online option. I am looking into it for myself to go from LPN to RN.

Good luck,

D

yoshiki56 · Mar 14, 2009

you won't be ready to NCLEX when you come out from online school, and if you do pass the borad. you aren't ready for the real world for just attending weekend 2 days clinical. You need to practices in lab, lecture in school, classmates to support you. Trust me, nursing school is real deal. you can't do it online. no, you are wasting your money and frustrate yourself.

there is no short cut .

caliotter3 · Mar 14, 2009

you won't be ready to NCLEX when you come out from online school, and if you do pass the borad. you aren't ready for the real world for just attending weekend 2 days clinical. You need to practices in lab, lecture in school, classmates to support you. Trust me, nursing school is real deal. you can't do it online. no, you are wasting your money and frustrate yourself.
there is no short cut .

Save the online option for RN to BSN, after you have obtained your basic skills training and have had the chance to obtain experience. Nursing is not the field to skip hands on training when you are first starting out. If you were getting a degree in English online I could see it. But not in a field where your skills may become necessary to save a life in your first week of work.

pagandeva2000, LPN · Mar 14, 2009

A great deal of students coming into an LPN program (not all, but many) have no nursing background whatsoever, and the LPN program is basically the foundation of nursing. You need to know the foundation of medication administration, bathing, washing, administering injections, possibly hanging IVs, doing dressings, tube feedings, and many other skills. It would be very difficult to be able to do this with no hands on experience.

If you decided to become an RN, of course, that would be advanced training within the nursing realm, but where would you have your basics? To walk in cold to perform skills on a patient is not really a good thing. And, you need to be able to hear a professor speak to you about the disease processes, nursing intervention, and to bounce ideas off to. Some folks are book people who can read the text and understand, but most do need some sort of guidance. I have never heard of an on line LPN program, but if they exist, I would not feel that comfortable. Even on line education from LPN to RN require that the person has already obtained their LPN license and have hopefully worked. This way, they can be assured that this individual has at least, the fundamental skills required for nursing.

CW57 · Mar 17, 2009

kgurpreet -don't sign up with Excelsior College- major ripoff despite some of the positive postings (you will have problems with the degree being acceptable for testing for RN -- see Georgia/Ca websites, and I understand more, but don't have that information on hand). As for the other online programs - i don't know,but would be very,very reluctant. Go to a traditional nursing program. They are way cheaper in the long run. Way cheaper. You'll find you spend more time with excelsior getting a degree that is tainted and not accepted at quite a few hospitals. Do you really want to count on everything being okay?

Prettyladie · Mar 17, 2009

i can tell you that dallas nursing institute is a private lvn program. its about 25000. so if you thats what you want to pay do it but i can honestly say that if you go to an lvn at dcccd, collin county or even nctc, you will spend roughly 5000 maybe a little more but surely not 25000 thats insane to pay that much for a one year program

pinksky · Apr 1, 2009

Actually DNI is 23k not 25k. I'm starting in April, that's how I know, and btw there are a lot of students transferring from Platt to DNI for some reason.

Prettyladie · Apr 1, 2009

well that 2000 difference is huge. you could have probably spent that much on another LVN program alone. but thats just my opinion. not here to degrade or discourage anybody. just voicing my opinion. but good luck to you all. and i hope you all succeed. what if you wanted to do an LVN-RN program would those courses transfer?

pinksky · Apr 1, 2009

well that 2000 difference is huge. you could have probably spent that much on another LVN program alone. but thats just my opinion. not here to degrade or discourage anybody. just voicing my opinion. but good luck to you all. and i hope you all succeed. what if you wanted to do an LVN-RN program would those courses transfer?

I'm so sick and tired of people always bashing private college tuition rates, you don't know peoples situations or needs. And by the time most people finish their pre reqs and get off the waiting list at the lower cost community colleges I will be FINISHED at the more expensive one, to "me" that is worth money spending.

And not sure if you understood my earlier post, I was actually saying the college I am going to is 2k CHEAPER.