Refresher Course and TPAPN?

[phlox]

I am an RN and have been out of nursing for well over a decade so need a refresher course. I left nursing by my own free will because I was diagnosed in 1996 as bipolar and was hospitalized and was unstable for many years. I am better now. I will need to be in the TPAPN program because of Bipolar Disorder to get back into nursing.

How do I do it? Take a refresher course and enter TPAPN at the same time? Does the time in the refresher course count as part of the two years required by TPAPN?

This is cross posted from the general discussion area.

[phlox]

Thanks Jack. A lot of my energy come from my mania, which is not always a bad part of Bipolar Disorder. Often, it is just the kick in the pants a person needs. But most of all I am getting energy from the fact that I am also helping my daughter and nephew get into nursing school. It's the "helping" I guess that is making me feel good. I am "doing" something. I am "making" others feel better and not just wrapped up in my own problems. Action words. :)