joyfulgrrl

What is the package pricing you all have been talking about?

Has anyone attended the Mercer County Career Center's LPN program? If so - how did they find it? Thanks!

I saw an ad in the Help Wanted section on a local newspaper for an LPN - stating that the starting wage was $12/hour!!!!! Is that common in the Western PA area? I think I remember that the ad was for a position in Hermitage, PA.... It seems so low!

I am doing this very thing right now! Well, starting too, anyway. Career change, just completing my training as a CNA, and starting LPN school in July. I will be working part time - probably 3 shifts a week, and school full time. I know it will be ti...

I'm very excited to have found this thread! I was just speaking to an RN I work with today about this very subject. I am just completing my CNA course, starting LPN school in July - and plan to go on for my RN at a later date. I can't count the numbe...

I moved to Western PA about 3 years ago - and have been feeling the lack of diversity ever since! While I am Caucasian, I grew up in Africa and have since lived in the DC area, and have an interracial family - I'm so not used to being around whites e...

I just discovered this thread - and am so excited to learn all about the progression of things in the program! Having spoken with Marci briefly before, I know we are going through the same program, only I haven't yet started (starting in July), and I...

Western Pa seems a little lower, as far as I know so far... seems like most nursing homes pay $7-8 while you are training, after you become "certified" it's around $8.5-9.5, plus shift differential which often seems to be 50 cents to a dollar. Of cou...

Thank you! The $15/hour seems more online with what I had been thinking (I am just getting ready to start LPN school in July), but that ad had me a little concerned! I do understand the difference in pay between doctor's offices and LTC - I am curren...

I love nose piercings! I have my nose pierced, but take it out while in school or at work - of course, I have had mine pierced for about 20 years, so I can leave the ring out for weeks and it doesn't close up. However, I was very surprised that at t...

Thank you for answering me! I actually did just "sign up" and wil be starting the FT program in July! I am excited and nervous - it is a career change for me. I guess I was just wondering what other students' impressions of the program might be. Whe...