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Hi there! I just got accepted to the hybrid program for September 2021 today!! So unexpected ! I thought for sure September was full and my only hope was May 2022. I sort of accepted it at this point and was looking forward to taking a break from school LOL but I am going to take the offer since this is what I’ve wanted since 2017! I hope everyone who is waiting to hear back gets a spot from the waitlist ❤️

OMG that’s amazing ! Congratulations!!! So happy for you! Were you waitlisted for September originally?!

Congratulations !! I just applied for the hybrid May 2022 since I was just able to register with the college two weeks ago. Apparently they received my application so fingers crossed! May 2022 is waitlisted apparently but the January 2022 I waitlisted. Maybe you will get an offer later in the year! if you don’t mind me asking when did you get an offer for the May 2022 intake? ?

I heard from a few RPNs at work that the CPNRE they wrote in February is very very similar to the 5th edition prep guide. I hope that’s true for this round of the exam LOL I’m waiting to do the 5th prep guide until a few days before and hopefully it’s as similar as my coworkers said it is!

Hi there!! Ugh that’s too bad about centennial. Guess I will have to wait until next September too, Im in the same boat as you. My test date is June 11th!! Nervous and excited haha I spent a lot of time doing practice questions, I reviewed some pharmacology but not a lot since all the practice tests I’ve done there has only been a few pharm questions on there. I’ve honestly just been reading this Mosby’s CPNRE review book I bought from Amazon and it’s really thorough which is great. I have passed the yardstick predictor test with a 77% and I haven’t done much studying yet. I’ve been working as an RPN for a month or so with the temp license so I’m taking the week off now to study since my exam is a week Friday. I will do more intense studying starting tomorrow! I just need to review med-surg stuff and pediatrics. Doing the practice questions and reviewing rationales I find to be extremely helpful. GBC also gave us a membership to this website called nurseachieve where there is tons of review material there and over 2000 practice questions with detailed rationales. It’s a great resource I just haven’t had time to use it to its fullest ability yet haha how are you guys studying?!

Hi there! Yep, called nipissing a month or so ago and they told me the same thing! I don’t mind, doing university prior to being an RPN I can’t wait to just work and have lots of full time work haha waiting for it to open sometime in September.

Hi everyone! I haven’t heard back yet either but I’m still waiting for write my CPNRE LOL mine is booked for June 11th but I have a temporary license so I’m not sure if I should send them that or? I heard the January 2022 is waitlisted already from another forum on this website. If you guys are looking for part time RPN to RN bridge have you looked into Nipissing? I am applying there as well. They also have January and September 2022 start dates and it’s all online with clinical placements. Huge benefit to that program is you don’t need to get accepted into Ryerson like you do for centennial and George brown. So you only need to get accepted into year 1 and that’s it.

Hi there, I applied to Jan 2022 at Centennial for the hybrid but I am writing my license exam in June of this is year so I have to wait. I haven’t checked my application in a month since I figured there would be no updates. I will check mine now! are you in the same situation as me or are you already licensed? Also I was wondering how you sent your CNO registration to Centennial? I have yet to figure that out and when I email people from admissions I just get automated responses back.

So Covid hit right when I was in the middle of the program. The first two semesters of lab and placement everything was in person because COVID didn’t exist at that time. Classes, labs and tests were in person and the labs are like hospital rooms so it’s really cool because it allows you to experience that environment before you enter placement in second semester. Over the semester break between second and third semester, COVID hit and out third semester was postponed by four months so the faculty could figure out what would happen and how they would continue teaching. Finally when they welcomed us back for third semester, everything was online and we did the lab learning at home. They mailed kits to our house with all the supplies we would need like needles, IV bags, ostomy pouches, etc, and our teacher would come on zoom and show us how to do stuff and we would follow her. It sucked to be honest. I was learning how to manage IVs in my bathroom. We also didn’t have clinical placement in third semester since that was in September and the Covid cases were high. So we had “virtual clinical” where all we did was answer multiple choice questions on certain topics every week. In 4th semester you don’t have any lab courses as you are in clinical anywhere from 30-46 hours/week and they teach you all the nursing skills you need to know from semester 1-3. The only classes you have in fourth semester are theory courses taught online. I’m not sure what they are doing now for first semester students for lab and for placement in second semester but that was my experience.

George brown switched to an online textbook method a few years ago so all of the textbooks you need are included in tuition and you will get the link to claim the textbooks when the semester starts. It’s sort of unfortunate because you don’t need the textbooks for every class but they make you purchase all of them. You can’t select to buy some and not others.

Hi Momtorn!! I was wondering if you knew kf we could apply for two temporary licenses if we have been offered employment at 2 places? For example, I recently got two part time job offers and both facilities would like me to start ASAP when the temporary license is filed? Thanks! I can’t find any info about it on the CNO website.

Interesting... I never received one. On OCAS it says my transcripts were received by centennial. Do you know who I should contact about this?

No problem!! I’ve researched these programs quite heavily the last few months... maybe too much LOL

Hi! Yes, so centennial has two different options for part time they have a 3 semester part time which is called their “Flex” program, and they had a “hybrid” which is 6 semesters consecutively. If you do the full time or flex bridging at centennial, you have the option to do part time or full time at ryerson. If you do the hybrid program you can only do part time at ryerson. You do the first few semesters at centennial and then the rest at ryerson. But you just have to have a competitive average in the centennial courses because acceptance to ryerson is not guaranteed. It’s a little confusing but their website lays it out nicely.

The Mohawk/McMaster program recently changed their admission requirements about two years ago, so you need to be a licensed RPN, a 3.5 GPA or above and 12U math (any of the 3 math courses) and 12U English. I had to take a 12U math online to fulfill the requirements but never applied because I decided I didn’t want to go back full time. I’m now applying to the centennial/ryerson part time bridging program.