Is anybody else starting the LPN program at Norwich Tech, CT this Fall 2015?
I'm excited and a little nervous. I keep saying to myself "by next December (2016), I'll be done with LPN". It makes it seem that much closer.
In August I'm quitting my good-paying job of 26 years to do this. I'm working part-time now as a CNA but will be working near full-time when starting the LPN program. I've read here on AN both "don't work while in school" and the "I've done it while maintaining a high GPA, time management". I'll try it, then if need be, my supportive wife said she'll work an extra part-time job for the time I'm in the program.
I'll do the LPN-to-RN bridge, probably through Excelsior's online program. The LTC facility I work pays entry LPNs $25/hr - I'm hoping to get picked up as an LPN, I would have been with them as a CNA for 2 years by then.
Although A&P 1 and 2 are not prerequisites for the program I've taken them at a community college (B+ and B) and the program coordinator said I can transfer the A&P classes into the LPN program - that's 90 hours of class and labs I won't have to do, more time to spend on pharmacology.
Looking at the handbook, the 1st semester has over twice as many hours as the 2nd semester - 390 hours for 1st semester, 180 hours for the 2nd semester, 225 hours for the 3rd semester.
I'll also be transferring over Intro to Psychology, so the last semester I'll have 180 hours. All prerequisites will be done for when I apply to an LPN-to-RN bridge program.
Anybody else as excited as I am that's entering CT's LPN program at a Tech School?
