kristen84

You can Bridge to RN if you start with your LPN from Concorde. I know there is an exam based program called Excelsior that you could do, or there is a bridge program based out of Longview. The bridge program in longview has an online option but you have to do all the prerequisites somewhere like PCC and you have to actually go to campus for major exams. You also are expected to participate in a 10 week clinical at the end of the online program. Concordes credits won't do much for you except earn you your license.

I am taking the NCLEX-PN on the 23rd. I am nervous but I know I will do fine. Good luck!

I just graduated 3 weeks ago and I am scheduled to sit for the NCLEX on the 23rd of this month. I am looking around at jobs and noticing that there aren't nearly as many as there seemed to be 2 years ago when I enrolled in school. So now I am getting pretty nervous. I am wondering if anyone can give me some realistic insight into how the job market is for LPNs right now. I know as a new grad I will not have my pick of tons of dream jobs. I am just nervous about getting a job at all, or it taking a very long time. I currently work one day a week as a counselor in a mental health facility and I have been considering taking on full time hours again to get me by until I find a job. My husband thinks I am freaking out for no reason and that I shouldn't take a full time position. He is sure I will be working as a nurse soon. I am hoping he is right but I am just not sure. So I am just looking for any personal stories about new grad LPNs and their job searches. Any stories would be appreciated, the good, the bad whatever you have. Thanks!

I just graduated from the LPN program at the Portland Concorde on 1/20. What do you want to know? I will tell you that there are some great instructors, and some awful ones. Clinical sites are not incredibly easy for them to come by so be prepared to go where they send you. I know that this is typical of most nursing programs but when I enrolled at Concorde they did not tell me that the clinical hours could be VERY different then the classroom hours, in fact they told me that they only varied "slightly." There were a few times where they did a drawing and whoever was drawn had to go to hood river for their 10 weeks of clinical that term. The facility was 95 miles from my house, luckly I wasn't drawn. They also did a drawing for PM shift (1:30-10pm) Some people willingly signed up for PM shift but a few were forced onto it. Those are just a few things that people in my class were suprised by. Feel free to ask if you have any more questions.

Hello I am graduating from a LPN program in January and I am trying to decide how I will be going on to further my education. I have done online research but I think that first hand info from those of you that have already been there, done that, really is the most valuable. I want to get my ASN and as most of you probably know bridge programs are few and far between and they take forever to get into. I have been looking into excelsior because of this and I am wondering if anyone has a story they wouldn't mind sharing with me about their post excelsior experience?? Some of the things I am curious about are how easy (or hard) was it to get a job as an RN with an excelsior degree? Were you able to get your BSN from a different school and transfer the credits that you earned at excelsior?? (Nursing and non nursing general ed?) What would you of liked to of known before you went through excelsior? Thank you so much in advance for sharing your wisdow with me