West Coast Ontario Schedules

angelcake11 · Jan 5, 2015

Hi all! I'm a teacher at a similar school and teach administrative medical assisting. It is a private for profit school, which I find predatory, but I digress. I live in the Coachella Valley Palm Springs area and am strongly considering this school because:

a. CC process it too crowded and too long and there's no alternatives for RN's in the area

b. I'm 33 and need to get this done in a hurry as the support I have is for a limited time.

c. I'm sick of waiting. I want to be a nurse yesterday.

I'm curious about the following:

1. Classes are 5 hours long I hear, but how many days of the week? I know things vary based on your already completed prereqs but I want to know the bare minimum. At the school I teach, it's 5 hours a day. Since I'll be commuting an hour and half each day (3 hours round trip), I want to know what kind of schedule I'm looking at. Do they include weekends? Is only Mon-Thu/Fri? Is it four or five days a week?

2. Around what times to classes start/end? What's the earliest class time? And the latest? I'm a mom so transportation for school for my son is a factor, but I have help.

3. If you graduated, were you limited in any way in which parts of medicine you can work in? I'd love to do OR, L&D.

I've got 12 years experience managing doctor's offices and doing their billing and now teach people how to do it and how to bill and all of the insurance info they need to be billers, coders, or office managers. Will this skill help me at all? Were the math and sciences really difficult? Hoping to get some answers to my plethora of questions! Thanks in advance!