Kellylpn07

LOLA-- We have 110 people who started the program and 10 are only LPNS, s yes it is very competitive!

Good Evening! I am actually in a bridge program as we speak and it is very different than the LPN program. I took my LPN at a technical school and so I had to redo all my prereqs, which i am so thankful for. The reason I say this is because the LPN courses were so brief. All the RN courses including the pre-reqs are very in depth. All of the thinking and assessments are on a way different level. LPN is very brief and it doesn't dig deep as to where an RN digs the deepest and has to know all the ins and outs. I am in a very hard program. We started with 110 and we are now down to 53 in our classes. Everything is NCLEX style. All of our quizzes/tests. You will definitely benefit from the program. We had a chance to challenge some classes but I took them all and I am sooo thankful I did because I would be so lost right now if I chose to opt out of those classes. The classes I could have opted out of were: Medical term, Dosage and calc., Nursing fundamentals I and II. If you are already an LPN then you will know some stuff that will help you along the way but it won't be a breeze for you. I struggle sometimes and I don't know how some people do it and have never had healthcare experience. So you will have a benefit a little bit but still it's very different then what we are used to doing. You will do great thought if you just put your mind to it and you really want it, then you will be successful. An honestly i know you asked to compare the LPN to the RN program and honestly all I can say is that it's like starting the nursing profession fresh off the street with only a little bit of knowledge. When you get into disease processes it's more indepth and more information that you need to know. You need to know what the disease is, how it presents, pathophys, clinical manifestations, interventions and collaborative care and how is it treated for each disease. It is definitely doable it's just alot more studying and alot more time consuming but definitely worth it in the end! I hope this helps some and I hope that you get into the program and I know this reply is late but I wanted to let you know that you will be such a better nurse if you repeat those pre reqs and dont opt out of any classes. i know that i've worked in an office since i've gotten my LPN and I have lost alot of skills and the skills lab/clinical experience has helped me gain alot of those skills back. Good Luck in all you do! Keep in touch. I'd love to see how it goes for you! Kelly R.

yes they are a college, are they accredited? NO!! that's the only problem that you run into. when u go back for your BSN or MSN, then a college can take you but they don't have to accept any of your classes which means you will probably have to start from scratch. I learned from experience. I am an LPN and I went to RSHT in richmond, va and now I am in RN school and I had to retake all my anatomies and everything! just be careful and make sure that if you go there you get a copy of their curriculum and contact schools that you would like to attend for your BSN and see what they will and will not accept. The reason I say this is because soon enough you will have to have a BSN to practice as a nurse. When this will pass noone knows but just to be prepared. Just really be careful with technical schools, they are very costly, you don't get a great education, just enough to get you through school and make sure you check their Pass rates for the boards!!! good luck!!!! I would recommend like southside regional school of nursing or John tyler or J. Sarge!!!

MCV (VCU) Is a wonderful place to work. it is a teaching hospital so you do have tons of residents, but you definately get alot of experience. they are the trauma center pretty much as well! also, any bon secours hospital is awesome as well! I am not too sure about the pay at these places but I know that any of these hospitals ( St. Mary's, St. Francis, VCU, Chippenham, Chippenham-Johnston-willis, and henrico doctor's are great!) You will do just fine! I love richmond and you will love it too!!! Good Luc! Also, I guess it depends on what part of richmond you are moving too, to be able to see which hospital is closest to you. they also have the sitter barefoot va hospital there as well! Good Luck!!!

Congrats!!! I was really uptight when I went to take my NCLEX...u can review any nclex questions but all you really ahve to remember is your ABC's they taught you in school....alot of questions are priority questions, like which patient would you go and check on first after report? and it will give you four choices and you have to choose. they also have medication doses on there but they aren't very hard...and then they have side effects of meds and diff. questions about signs and symptoms but the main thing they ask are priority questions and if a pt. has a certain allergy what meds can and cant they take! good luck! everyone feels like they failed when they come out but you will do just fine!!!!!!

their program is very basic. They just teach you as little as needed to get you through the course. It's like high school tests pretty much. it doesn't prepare you for the state boards hardly. Very easy program but you must study alot on your own to pass the boards. Most of the people passed the boards in my class but some of them haven't passed as we speak. They also dont have many clinical sites because students who think they knew it all went to clinical sites and were rude and stuff so they barely have sites. When I finished school and actually started working as an LPN I barely knew any skills compared to what is really out there. they don't prepare you well!!! but like i said if you can learn on your own very well then this is a good program because it is soooo easy! anyone can pass it unless they just really dont want to be there...

If your school is not NLN accredited and they do not have like a "sister" school then you can't go on with your BSN...You are still eligible to sit for your boards and as long as you pass the boards then there is no reason why anyone shouldn't hire you. And what I mean by "sister" school is like another school that is affiliated with your school. For instance, we have a school called VWCC where I live and they are not NLN accredited because they do not have enough clinical instructors who have their MSN, they have BSNs, so if you go there you can only go to Radford or Jefferson school of Health Sciences for your BSN. They are the only ones who will accept you. If they are not NLN accredited I would highly recommend not going their especially in the Richmond area. That is where I am from and I don't think any schools will accept you there. Good Luck

I graduated from RSHT in october of 2007...their pass rates for NCLEX aren't that well because alot of the students really do not care who go there. They have a big turnover on their teachers because they are so unorganized...none of your credits transfer to a different college, it's expensive, and the teacher you have for anatomy could also teach pharmacology. they don't have set teachers for each subject. your classes are 5 weeks long and one 5 weeks they could teach geriatrics and the next 5 weeks teach medical terminology. so they aren't prepared for they class like they should be. they find out that they are teaching a course the friday before the class starts...i am not back in school for my RN and nothing transferred so I have to repeat the anatomies again!! Good Luck

I went to RSHT for my LPN in 2007 and now I am back in RN school and none of my credits transferred...the school is a rip off for the lPn because it was like 20,000.00 and nothing transfers...it is an easy program if that is what you are looking for but none of the teachers are experienced with the subject they are teaching...they are all RNs but they could teach a different subject every 5 weeks but they won't know what they are teaching until the friday before class starts so they don't even have time to review the material before class starts....they don't have many clinical sites because some students have really showed their attitudes in the past and they lost clinical site due to that...the last class that you take does prepare you well for the boards...They lost my entrance test and i had to retake it the week before classes started. very unorganized place. I know this reply is a little late but I hope this helps!