morrigan97

I just returned to my local community college last semester for my nursing prereqs and as of 2007 they no longer have a wait list as they used to for years. Now They will accept 50 students for spring and another 50 students for fall of the following term, applications received in March 2008. You can't have any prereqs concurrently being taken - everything basically has to be completed by the time you apply. And if you don't get in, you apply again the following March. I am taking Physiology this semester and next semester I'll take Microbiology, which means that I won't be eligible to apply until march '09. In the meantime I've been accepted at a local vocational school for the LVN program that runs during the weekends for 18 months and I will be attending the orientation to make sure if the program is for me. This way, I'll still be able to go to school for my prereqs, work, and do the LVN during the weekends (like I will have a life outside of all this....) By July '09 I'll be done with LVN. Who knows what will happen if I simply wait till I get accepted next year during my first try to apply? Liz :icon_roll

I'm pretty frustrated with CNA school I'm currently enrolled in. I've got 2 more weeks to go (I am doing a weekend course) and I'm in it because it's a requirement for their LVN course. Anyway, most of the theory classes were via videotapes played for us. Then we're expected to practice on each other and be on our own. After 8 days of theory, we were off to do our clinicals at a LTC facility and expected to do everything already. Two people already quit, feeling unprepared for it all, and not getting the instruction that they felt they needed. I'm ready to quit, too, but since I've got 2 more weekends, I guess I'll tough it out. Our instructor meanwhile tells us that this LTC will probably be shut down soon because of some of their practices, that if we were taking this CNA course to get into the LVN program, then we should consider other schools instead of this one (she reworded it later on to say that she just wanted us to check out other schools so we don't waste our time and money), and that the LVN instructor who's also there with her students at the same time as we are is not doing what she's supposed to do, blah blah blah. It's all drama, I think, and try not to get involved. then midterm rolls in and the isntructor tells us that we have 50 question midterm. When the questionnaire comes, it's 250 questions! She then apologizes and says that because she saw that the last number on the questionnaire was 50, she assumed it was when it turned out that the midterm test is divided into chapters - chap 1 questions go from 1 - 50, then chap 2 questions go from 1 - 43, and so on, and we just fill out the scantron as 1 - 50 for chap 1 and 51 - 93 for chap 2 and so on. In the end, we needed 3 scantrons. When I submit my test, the instructor tells me that i'm one number short. The girl next to me has the same amount of questions, while another student has one question more than the required number. It was a mess, and after 90 minutes of test taking and confusion over what number I missed in the questionnaire, the instructor told us to throw the scantrons away and that we were going to take a 50-question midterm next week instead. The Director of the school blamed the instructor for not making her own exam, the instructor blamed the CEO for telling her to use the school exam, and the CEO blamed the school secretary for making the copies. All this in front of the students. So I'm pretty frustrated :angryfire ...

Anyone heard of or gone to Trinity Vocational College in Carson, CA? What are your opinions, comments, observations, etc?

Try North Orange County ROP. They have a vocational nursing program. One of my Anatomy classmates went to school there a few years ago and loved it. She's now taking prereqs for her AA.