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Funding has been given to Vancouver Island at one of their school. I have been in contact with the education minister of B.C. I am doing the care aide as the funding for LPN was cut. BUT i heard VCC is also talking about having a bridging program for that. Your options are as follows. Vancouver Community college Stenburg college (I know people in my family who went there and got jobs) Vancouver Career College. Now THIS depends on which campus you go to. I did a LOT of interviews throughout the lower fraser valley and the abbotsford campus is great. Im there now and I had reservations. Not anymore. The insructor is funny and thorough. She tells us what to expect and is not a tight ass. There are people that go there that travel from Vancouver. In fact its so packed we had to move our class over to to their sister MTI for a room. NOW UFV in Chilliwack is good because its cheaper. And some of their practicums are at the hospital whereas ours are not. BUT the instructor is harsh. And there hours are really long. If you want relaxed atmosphere with good schedules for school. VCC in abbotsford. (They get hired more over UFV too go figure.) If you want demanding schedule harsh teachers but CHEAPER big time go to UFV. Just whatever you do dont Sprott Shaw it. Ive dont the interviews. They will hire if they are desparate but rather not.

DO NOT GO TO SPROTT Shaw.Everywhere I go here in the lower fraser valley they will not hire of you go there. They go figure hire vancouver career students and UFV students. Be careful who goes on here and says otherwise. Do your research. They cringe if you mention sprott down here.!

DEFINATLEY do not not do sprott shaw. And if there are other alternatives go there. BUT I am going to Vancouver career college. The schools here in the lower mainland except that school and the university as the highest when it comes hiring. I am fortunate as mine is being sponsored. And they just recently got accredited. Go to their website and it will tell you about the outside group that does it and what improvements they are making. Ya gotta do what you gotta do.

I have a friend of mine that works at the abbotsford hospital here who connected me with someone who was working with her that took an online LPN course. This girl told me she took it through Thompson university in Kamloops back in 06 which was contracted through Norquest. It was an excellent course and the program was well know throughout B.C. I heard through other people at the hospital that they turned out excellent students. Sadly for some reason they never renewed there contract through Norquest and it ran out in 06. She told me you went up to kamloops once for a month and another time for a couple weeks for the practicums but did her last one here locally. She got a job right away at the big hospital here AND she is now doing an online RN course out in edmonton while she is working. I of course was interested as I need to work and am unable to do fulltime and this is perfect. I contacted Kamloops and they told me they are no longer offering the LPN direct and were telling me to go to Williams lake to go to there school which is abusurd since I live in abbotsford. So i contacted Norquest and finally found out through my contact there, that the program may reopen again. I said to him that there would be no shortage of students as I already have a couple people that are looking for a B.C. direct learning LPN program for a while. I wont know for sure till the beginning of february as the talks wont go through till January but it seems pretty positive at this time. I just thought to throw it out there to those who might be interested.

Im going to be posting something about a new online LPN course that may be coming up here in kamloops at thompsan university.