U of Phx LPN to BSN

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Specializes in tele, med surg,.

Anyone taking this course?

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Step-down and ICU.

I started in 08/08 and will be grad in 11/10 LOVE this program . :redpinkhe

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Specializes in tele, med surg,.

thank you for replying, I will pm you to pick your brain further. :nurse:

Edited- I don't have enough points to pm yet. Sigh. I don't care to post my email on internet, so I will start with questions here untill I rack up enough points to pm.

Did you start at U of Phx with your pre-req's? Also are you using Excelsior to get some of the credits?

I have 15 years of LPN exp, with 12 of them in hospital on Tele or Med-surg mostly. The only college credits I have are for my EKG, Venipuncture, and LPN IV course.

I work full time and have to pick evening courses so I can pay my bills ( yuck), that is why I am interested in U of Phx. I work for CHW and they reimburse directly to U of P, which saves me some hassle.

Thank you

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Step-down and ICU.

I had most of my pre-reques from community college the wait was too long for me to get into ADN program. I tried Excelsior and got some courses with them but U of P does not recognize them. I took pre-reques at U of P from March-Aug. then in Aug is when I was dome with pre-reques and the actual program started. My academic counselor worked closely with me to start me at the right time to get pre-reques in time to start the BSN component. When I started there was no waiting list. I am hearing new people do have a wait list. Depends on if you are going to Phx or Tucson. I am not sure if they both have a wait list. But you do have to take a HESI at the sart of the program it doesn't matter what your score is. Then a HESI prior to and after each clinical course. You have to get a certain score at the end of each in order to continue in the program. Then a HESI at the end of the program and you have to meet the score to finish and take your boards.

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Specializes in tele, med surg,.

Thank you for your answers . Seems like a lot of Hesi testing :eek:. Do you have to work with groups in the core classes? When do you do clinicals? I appreciate all your help with my questions :nurse:

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Step-down and ICU.

We do have Learning Team assignments when we do not have classes with a clinical component for the most part. There are a few exceptions. Clinicals are with Med-Surg, Psych, OB, Peds, ICU and two more not in a hospital have clinicals they are Family nursing and Community Health Nursing in each of those we go into the community and visit an agency with another classmate. The clinical part is done after 5wks of class then we do 5wks of clinical just for those 2 classes-not hard. Clinicals are done on 1 weekend day for 5-6 wks dependending on the clinical for 10-12hr shifts. The clincals correspond to the class. For example I do my classroom work on Mondays 6-10pm and would go to clinical on Sat from 0630-5pm. There is space between classes with clincals and classes without cliniclas so you are not constantly in a clinical so it gives a well needed break the program does not have any vacations except ours gets breaks when we have a Monday holiday like Memorial day but we never get a few weeks off. It is straight through with no semesters. It goes so fast. The ave class is 5 wks. Classes with clincals are 6wks. Classes with clincals take HESI prior to start of the class then after last day of clinical so you have a chance to learn the info and prepare for it. I really like the program class size is small instructors have a background in their fields many are Master-Doctorate level trained. Very supportive administrative leaders. We now have a clinical simulation lab with life like manequins. Practice skills with them and IV starts newborn assessment OB assessments. Well worth the cost. I figured if I went to ADN then BSN seperate I would not be spending any less than I am now.

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I finished the LPN-BSN program in March 2009. Only had 4 credits that would transfer and CLEP'd another 15. I went to the Tucson campus. It was pretty unorganized when I started and improved along the way. We were in the first group taking the HESI's. (was implemented 1/2 way through our program). Overall a very good experience. There were 12 of us going through it together. We became almost family. Only myself and one other person passed the exit HESI the first time. All of us believe the HESI is much, much harder than the actual NCLEX. I finished with a 3.93 GPA. I am starting the FNP program next July through UoP if I cannot find a comparable one to start before that.

I would be happy to answer any other questions! Good Luck!

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:crying2: Please, I need your input, today I received my first phone call from my advisor, according to him he was going to evaluate my records from my LPN, back in 1990 out of NY, took the MCC LPN refresher course but I don't think this credits will make a difference, I did a lot med-surg, critical care experience in the past training offered by my employers, but as a single parent never considered to go back to school until now that everything is falling apart a relationship of 17 years, got marry in Jan for nothing, now separated, laid off by employer of 3 years, almost in the verge of having issues paying basic needs, not enough hours via registry not able to cover basic needs.

I will continue to fulfill my goal nursing is a rewarding experience especially hospice care.

Please advice me if I should continue with uop.

Sincerely,

Gladiola

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