Tampa Galen LPN to RN PROGRAM

[Stefanie40]

Has anyone been or is currently going through the Tampa Galen Lpn to Rn program and what is your opinion about it? I was going to meet with them and take the first steps to applying for the program but it seems like I have read more negative reviews about the instructors, administration and just the school overall than positive reviews. So I am pretty nervous about even attending the school. I do work full time so I need a program that offers mostly online work. If anyone has been in this program I would appreciate your opinions.

[NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN]

OP, I sent you a PM with information

[saucey]

i noticed you had no comments, i may be a bit late!

i did Galen's ADN program but for the final 2 quarters they mixed us in with the LPN bridge students so i can tell you what i heard from them atleast.

they seemed to like the program, although many said that unless travel time is a huge problem that it is FAR better to do the classes on campus then online, the online instructors give a lot of extra busy type work and are not very hands on.

[Takeyla22]

On 8/23/2015 at 12:20 PM, NurseSpeedy said:

OP, I sent you a PM with information

Can you send it to me as well. Email: [email protected]

[MJL2020, CNA]

Hi Takeyla22, could you please send me the info as well if you don’t mind? I am considering Galen as well. Thanks.

[email protected]

[Takeyla22]

2 minutes ago, MJL2020 said:

Hi Takeyla22, could you please send me the info as well if you don’t mind? I am considering Galen as well. Thanks.

[email protected]

I never received the info, sorry. I ended up attending Rasmussen. 

[NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN]

On 10/11/2015 at 1:35 AM, saucey said:

I noticed you had no comments, I may be a bit late!

I did Galen's ADN program but for the final 2 quarters they mixed us in with the LPN bridge students so I can tell you what I heard from them atleast.

they seemed to like the program, although many said that unless travel time is a huge problem that it is FAR better to do the classes on campus then online, the online instructors give a lot of extra busy type work and are not very hands on.

I did the bridge program online from fall 2014-Spring 2016, graduated top of my class and did it ONLINE-no ‘busy’ work-found it easy compared to going in an listening to an instructor for hours as I did my LPN program before online school ever existed. If you read the text-the areas emphasized  in the books were the test-and if you read the discussion boards after the instructor interacted-those were test questions a lot of the times. I would never trade online for in class instruction-but I’m also a very good-self taught student-I can’t pay attention to a lecture worth anything-but I can go through material in chunks on my own time much more efficiently-just my two cents 

[NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN]

On 6/11/2020 at 2:44 AM, Takeyla22 said:

Can you send it to me as well. Email: [email protected]

Sorry, I just now saw the post request during browsing. It was so long ago I can’t remember what I sent as the site has revamped and I don’t have my old messages

[NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN]

On 9/14/2020 at 3:24 PM, MJL2020 said:

Hi Takeyla22, could you please send me the info as well if you don’t mind? I am considering Galen as well. Thanks.

[email protected]

My original pm was sent in 2015-I don’t have access to it anymore but if you have a specific question I’d be happy to answer now-I came across your post by chance just now. PM would be the best method to reach me-I check that regularly.

[Shes_Riley]

Do you know whether classes are still hosted online? 

On 9/15/2020 at 11:39 PM, NurseSpeedy said:

My original pm was sent in 2015-I don’t have access to it anymore but if you have a specific question I’d be happy to answer now-I came across your post by chance just now. PM would be the best method to reach me-I check that regularly.

Are classes still hosted online and if so is it longer if you take the online route? 

[NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN]

On 10/11/2020 at 6:34 PM, Shes_Riley said:

Do you know whether classes are still hosted online? 

Are classes still hosted online and if so is it longer if you take the online route? 

I graduated in 2016-it was the same pace as the on campus program. I can’t imagine they would change anything, especially now with social distancing. Some students would take a term or two longer if they didn’t want to do the core academics with the nursing classes. I transferred the vast majority of my general ED classes from a community college and just took the easy ones at Galen because it was expensive but they required a minimum number of credits to be from them to graduate. So I took life span developmental psychology that I had actually taken years ago from another college, sociology which I had taken the college CLEP test and passed before, and humanities-which was literature-which reminded. Me of AP senior lit 20 years earlier in high school so I was okay taking those three with my nursing classes at the same time. I would suggest taking the sciences separate and maybe transfer them in from a community college to save some money and a major headache as each course is finished in 11 weeks so micro was a killer at the same time as nursing classes for those who took them at the same time.

[Lpn-rn-PAc]

On 11/3/2020 at 9:36 PM, NurseSpeedy said:

I graduated in 2016-it was the same pace as the on campus program. I can’t imagine they would change anything, especially now with social distancing. Some students would take a term or two longer if they didn’t want to do the core academics with the nursing classes. I transferred the vast majority of my general ED classes from a community college and just took the easy ones at Galen because it was expensive but they required a minimum number of credits to be from them to graduate. So I took life span developmental psychology that I had actually taken years ago from another college, sociology which I had taken the college CLEP test and passed before, and humanities-which was literature-which reminded. Me of AP senior lit 20 years earlier in high school so I was okay taking those three with my nursing classes at the same time. I would suggest taking the sciences separate and maybe transfer them in from a community college to save some money and a major headache as each course is finished in 11 weeks so micro was a killer at the same time as nursing classes for those who took them at the same time.

 Hi, I was interested in Galen as well . I want to do the LPN to RN and it seems as though most schools are filling up. Would you recommend it ? Also, How was the finaid process? or was anything having to come out of pocket ? 

 Thanks Alot for any info..