Im currently accepted into a LPN program in missouri. I was supposed to attend this August and graduate 11 months later but I found out I was pregnant and deferred acceptance to next year. Which Im kind of glad I did because they changed their program hours..and the new hours suit me better because Im an hour away from school.
Previous schedule was monday - thursday 7am-4pm 11 month program
New schedule is Monday - Friday 8-4pm August to December then Jan - June Monday and Tuesday 7-4pm for clinicals , Wed and Thursday 8-4pm and 10 scheduled friday's 8-4pm 10 month program.
The total cost is a few hundred short of $10,000..which is almost double what a CC would charge me..but their pass rates for the boards are a lot better.
Im really excited to start ....i've put nursing school off for long enough...went straight to college after high school...and was one semester away from applying and I quit school...very stupid of me.
Once I graduate I'll bridge over to an RN program and then hopefully from there do an online RN to BSN program. Because of my past personal experience with infertility I would eventually like to end up in a Womens Health clinic/Ob Gyn office that has infertility services or in a Reproductive Endocrinologists office working with IVF patients.
anyone else looking to start next fall? are you taking any classes right now? Im currently finishing up AP..and plan on taking Dev Psych next semester.
I have been on a waitlist since last summer and should be starting this September. I've been working on the RN bridge pre-reqs while waiting, but it just can't go fast enough for me either!! I too want to follow through to NP. It will be a long haul!
Hi. I want to try cna course before i enter the rn/bsn. I am so afraid to become another patient. I fear that I will not be able to handle vomit or the smell of poop. I have no kids and no training like my sisters. I love nursing but those 2 things are stoping me from entering this beautiful world. My friends tell me that I will get used to it. Have you ever, yourself, or seen anybody else run out of a patients room for what I just mentioned?
I was just like you two years ago. My mom (an RN) recommended that I take a CNA course before I start nursing school, and I was like "Eww that's gross..I don't want to deal with poop & giving baths!" But I really liked my class. And I did get used to cleaning poop, along with the other things that CNA's have to do. When I start nursing school next week, I will be extremely grateful for the two years I spent as an aide. Honestly if I had my way, I would make everyone who applies to nursing school also be certified as a CNA So I say, go for it! Good luck :)
I hope to be joining you all along the way. I am still having trouble deciding on which school to go to. But I do want to "climb the ladder". Cna > LPN > RN. I feel the experience will help me learn more as I go along; I'll be more understanding of my co-workers once I am a RN, and maybe be able to work PT while I am in school and in between bridging. I agree that it should almost be mandatory to be CNA to start school. But at the same time, not everyone can afford the cost of a CNA class. Round here its like $700 everywhere you go. The nursing homes don't train you anymore.
Wow!!! $700.00 bucks for CNA school.....over here in OHIO the classes seems to be getting cheaper and cheaper,,, its like $250.00 dollars right now to take the class....Couple years ago it was $500.00 to take test.
Hey Roxie which part of OH are you in? I am in Cincinnati/Northern KY area. Seriously at Cinci State, Butler Tech, and Great Oaks CNA is all somewhere around $700.
I keep seeing a "special" in Columbus for about $400 but that is the lowest I have found.
I'm starting the LPN program at Delaware Tech in Augest.
By the way, you guys are lucky, here in Delaware it's about $1500 for CNA classes, which is why I'm just going to sit for the cna exam after my first semester of nursing school.
So I say, go for it! Good luck :)
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I have been on a waitlist since last summer and should be starting this September. I've been working on the RN bridge pre-reqs while waiting, but it just can't go fast enough for me either!! I too want to follow through to NP. It will be a long haul!