Watsurf

With your lack of empathy, I certainly would fear for your patients and would not want to be a terminal patient under your care as I'd be afraid that you'd put a pillow over my face. You are not a nice person.

No, my life has steadily gone down hill from there. I returned to my old profession after semi-healing, only to get severely injured, need extensive neck surgery, and then get let go after the requisite time that they wouldn't get busted for throwing a workman's comp person out on their ear. . My money has run out, nobody is hiring at all, and I'm one step from being homeless. For all those naysayers that blasted me in this thread and passed judgment, I hope that you are doing better than I am. Remember that karma is a ***** and you will someday be on the receiving end. I just hope that people treat you better than you treated me.

Because money isn't everything. I wanted to help people. Cheers, Jeff

I just wonder if the other male in the program, who is a minority, and has flunked 4 tests and had to re-take them, should be caring for patients.

I was not discriminated against per se. Even though the rules are selectively enforced, I'm not going to charge discrimination. However, if I don't get a timely refund, and a letter noting the reason of my discharge from the program, then I will bury them in so much litigation they won't know what hit them. I come from a family of attorneys who love nothing more than a good streetfight.

I'm through with my career as a prospective nurse. I gave it my best shot, and through actions beyond my control, was kicked out. What really upsets me is that I gave up a $75,000 a year job to pursue nursing. I must have had holes in my head.

They said that they would refund my tuition. I still don't have the check in my hands yet. I see the other side of the coin too, as for having to be able to give care to the patients. I also see a class where the rules are inscribed in stone, but selectively enforced or not enforced depending if one is a teacher's pet or not. As for the clinicals, I only missed one day. There was one of the "teacher's pets" who missed two days last week and is still in the program. Our program requires all missed clinicals to be made up on the weekends. I'm not going to waste any more time with trying to become a nurse. Jeff

I've been in my LPN program for a couple of months. In my program, I was the senior citizen at 49 years of age. As our program is very rigorous and moves at a fast pace, I was able to excell in the program due to my maturity. In fact, I kept my average around 96% on all of the tests and turned in my assignments in a timely manner. Last Friday morning, on my way to my first clinical orientation, I was involved in a very serious automobile accident. A person rear ended me on the interstate. I was going 65MPH, and the guy was going 100MPH. I spun through 3 lanes of traffic and ended up in the median. My car was folded up like an accordian. Luckily, I am alive, have suffered only whiplash, 2 broken ribs, and lower back pain. I was checked out of the hospital with sufficient meds, and a wrap for my ribs. Returning to clinicals, I was out of place, having received no orientation, I felt like a duck out of water. I did my best for 2 days, but was unable to move patients etc. The instructor, who I respected, pulled me aside on the third day, and suspended me. She told me that she wasn't kicking me out of the program, but that I could take the next CNA program, then start all over in the next LPN program in Feb. As I have made a midlife career change, my finances only allowed me to budget expenses for a year, and this would take 50% longer, and continuing in this program would not be economically feasable. Yesterday, I spoke with the head of the Nursing Department to discuss the matter. My instructor had made out an incident report to cover her ass containing many inaccuracies and downright lies. In it, she accused me of basically throwing a tantrum, not reporting my prescriptions....which I did, and generally being an ass. I asked the head of the nursing program for a copy of this incident report, and she refused to give me a copy, citing confidentiality. I thought I was entitled to see all of my records. I did, however, get her to agree to refund all monies that I had paid for tuition, and write a letter that said I was withdrawn from the program on September 21. We shall see if any of this occurs. As for me, I'm 49 years old, have no job, am injured, and my mental state is a total mess. The future for me is not bright. My auto insurance company is the same company of the guy who hit me. The insurance company is trying to cut corners, and not pay me what is a proper amount, and now I'm going to have to hire a lawyer. None of this is my fault, not one bit. I left home a week ago, all excited for my first day of clinicals. Instead, my life is ruined. Jeff

We started August 8th. and have tests on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. So far, we've had a lot of work. We have assignments to turn in everyday, and I'm averaging 4 hours of homework a night. Cheers, Jeff

You are a lifesaver. Thank you very much. Is the A&P final really taken from questions from the tests and pre-tests? I am under the impression that the questions are only taken from the multiple choice questions. Any help will be greatly appreciated. How many hours of study did you have a night when you were in school proper? How soon after the course starts do you start clinicals in the hospital? Cheers, Jeff

] What LPN program are you in, or were you in? I'm starting at SCTI August 8th. I'm doing the online courses right now to get them out of the way.

My school is a Vo-Tech and it's $3300 for the course. Books etc. run about $700 extra.

I have a BS in chemistry with a minor in math. I'm 48 and just started my LPN program. I chose the LPN as I'm only able to take a year off until we need some $$$$ rolling in. I will transition to an RN program after I have completed my LPN and have a job. Cheers, Jeff