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Thank you for your insights. After reading as many posts as possible, I know now I cannot do a FT studying. It is just out of question. However, PT looks like I could do it. Are you taking your program at a local community college? Thanks.

Deaconess college online looks like a very interesting place. I checked out their site. Very interesting. However, as you mentioned, the tuition is very high. The entire program would probably cost $~30,000. I wish I had the money to afford this program. It would be very cool to be able to study at home, especially since I already took anatomy and physiology and micro at a college, but because it was over 10 yrs ago, the credits are not transferrable any longer. I do not think I could stand taking these two courses again at the college. I would not mind taking them online. I wonder if it is possible to take just a few courses from their program instead of taking the entire thing. Thanks.

Yes, that is exactly what I am afraid of and I already have difficulty with finding enough time w/out being in school.

Thanks for your help. I live in Buffalo area (lol, we are just getting burried in snow) and they have a couple locations for LPN program at BOCES. I have two nurses I work with almost qd and they both took this course. One took it during the day and the other in the evenings. I wanted to get more opinions re: this program. Yes, I know about that pre-entrance test. I got a book with the tests and they seem pretty easy. I am mainly concerned about the load of homework, stress level :) , and all the other changes that would need to be made if I started studying again. Thanks again for your help.

I also felt exhausted just be reading your schedule. It's not easy to follow it, even if it is only for 6 wks. I took micro along with statistics during one summer semester (6 weeks) and had to withdraw from statistics in order to keep myself from getting insane. It was a lot of studying for micro, a lot of things to memorize. Reading only was not helping me at all. I literally had to sit down every night and repeat, repeat, and once again repeat the new things we were learning. I did very well in micro but only because I did not have to work at that time. However, I had two small children to take care of and my hubby on an Army assignment overseas. I sometimes think you have to be young in order to survive this. I wish you the best. It just worries me you do not have a day off from work. Good luck!

Hello everyone. I am very new to this board. I am thinking about taking LPN at BOCES and was wondering how intense this program is. They told me it runs 11 or 12 mos, 4 to 10 every weekday. I am a certified HHA and CNA and took some college courses including HA & P, Microbiology, advanced math, etc; but it was almost 15 yrs ago (goodness!!!) and now I am not sure if my brain is still in a studying mode. :) I did ace all my courses but that was a LOT of studying and I did not have to work at that time. If anyone is or was taking LPN at BOCES, could you share with me your opinion. From what I have read so far, it seems that HA & P and pharmacology are the hardest. How about the lab for anatomy? Did you have to dissect an animal (we did a cat) and were the labs hard? Thanks a bunch.