Pima CC

R.NICU · Feb 15, 2010

you don't have to wait a year to get into the RN program. i'm an RN student at Pima and we had several LPNs in block II with us who had just graduated a few months before. and they no longer enter into block III... they must start in block II (which is our first med-surg, the rest of med-surg we do in our last semester). you just need to have all of your pre-reqs finished for the RN program and you can start. I also work with an LPN who graduated from the CTD program last march and could have started the bridge this january but she decided to knock out more co-reqs and will start this fall.

brandy2010 · Feb 18, 2010

Thats what the Nursing Director at Pima told me. She said if you do the LPN through CTD you must work a full year as an LPN before they will start you into there 3rd block she didn't mention anything about 2nd block. This information was given to me last mth so I dont know I'm hearing alot of different stuff. I was accepted in the Nursing program where I live so I'm safe now. If I didn't get in I was thinking of going through CTD.

JaninAZ · Feb 16, 2011

Update regarding the bridge between CTD's LPN program to Pima's RN program: The answer you'll get as to how long the wait is to get into the latter half of West Campus's RN program, after you have completed all the necessary prereqs and the work experience requirement has, and will likely remain vague. There are too many variables to give specifics, i.e. how many students are applying at any given time, yearly FUNDING, availability of nursing INSTRUCTORS, clinical sites, last minute student dropouts, etc... All of which effect wait times. By the way, for those who have taken science courses in the more distant past, understand they expire after 6 years -not 8 as they used to!

I feel people should really think twice about other possibilities as far as careers go. Realistically, with the amount of time spent taking nursing prereqs and dealing with wait-lists, one could more quickly, and less painfully, complete training in a number of other fields which both pay well and have HALF the stress of nursing. And don't think for a minute that as a new nurse grad., LPN or RN, that jobs will be easy to land, because they won't be.

I'm not being gloomy here. This is all food for though, so to speak. Just do yourself justice and think carefully about the long run. Not just about time and money invested, but the quality of work life you'll have at the end of whatever road you choose.

Luvaddison · Feb 17, 2011

I had never heard of this CTD program...does anyone have more details? Cost? Length? Wait List? Info would be greatly appreciated!