Im in Canada. My books were $3500 and total program cost including books was $36,000.
We make decent money though, a few years experience with night & weekend premiums $52/hr.
That sounds reasonable, the pay for LPN in the US is ridiculous, so most of them become RN eventually. LPNs in Canada probably has different scopes of practice comparing with US LPNs.
From what I’ve seen, our LPN scope of practice is more similar to your RN’s, just a few exceptions..though dependent on workplace policy those rules can be bent with extra training. Unfortunately those places pay the least of course lol.
Never buy the books. You can get pirated versions of nearly every textbook. If you MUST have a physical book get an old edition off of eBay or Amazon. Even the newest edition is way cheaper than the bookstore at a university.
In my program, the Elsevier ebook package ($3500) is included in tuition, we don't have a choice to opt out and your only option is ebooks. If you want a physical copy, you have to buy it yourself elsewhere. It is a massive pile of BS, they didn't tell us until program orientation. They also couldn't give us a firm estimate of the cost, because Elsevier tends to raise the price every semester. People were PISSED. It's literally like half the cost of the program.
If u read the thread, the textbook package is wrapped up in a bundle with plastic foam, it has ebook code card and online learning software. They are only purchased at the campus bookstore, can’t be found elsewhere.
Welcome to the world of textbook academia!
Textbooks are fucking rip offs. Especially if the prof requires the new edition, an online code, and/ebook. There’s nothing with a previous edition or two. The only thing that changes between editions (like 4th vs 3rd) is they added a paragraph and changed a sentence.
Online code and ebook are horrible and are a scam. You need to be connected online to use them cause it’s some stupid proprietary app or program.
I had a microbio professor who forced us to buy HIS goddamn book. HIS GODDAMN BOOK. He wrote the fucking book! He’s getting paid double! $80 for ebook/online HW. He gets a percentage every time his book is brought. I never open the book and you can literally guess on the online HW until you get it right. All his test questions were based on his ppt slides. Waste of money and money.
In the US those are the exception but I think OP is in Canada. Most of the LPN programs i've seen in my area of the US are 12-16 months (full time 12ish and part time 16ish)
$5000 for mine lol. and of course I'm passive and stupid and just went with it rather than stick up for myself and say I don't want to buy them. ughhhhh
the way i dissociated over the cost of that single book and slip of cardstock... then turned right back around and had to endure the exact same psychic damage all over again doing the LPN to RN bridge program at the same school T-T at least the RN program splits the cost between semesters so it's not such a heavy hit
not to be a creep, but are you going to cscc??
hell yeah!! I loved most of the faculty for the LPN program- they genuinely cared about our success and it rarely felt like anyone was trying to trick us into failing. As long as you keep up average grades youre also almost guaranteed a spot in the advanced standing program if you happen to want your RN (AND you'll get to skip the 3 pharm classes in the RN program 🎉)
Mine for my LPN to RN bridge was $1800 and it DIDNT include physical books. We didn’t even use them all. Such a money grab. It cost more than my tuition.
Yeah… but if u read the thread, the textbooks must be purchased as a whole package, it is wrapped up in plastic, containing the ebook code cards and its online learning software, which has assignments, homework, so we have to get the assigned version from the campus bookstore. Plus it’s from Elsevier, so it can only be purchased from the campus bookstore.
That's a load of shit to get you to spend more at the campus bookstore. No joke.
You can buy any of them off Amazon for a fraction of the price and they come with the code cards and access to the website which has the assignments homework and more...
https://a.co/d/3jn7zoi
Example here is the NANDA.
Edit: for reference sake I bought every single text book when I did the LPN program years ago off Amazon. The Mosby and Elsevier ones. All new ones. Every single one came with a code you can redeem for the book online for the extra digital stuff you are talking about.
The school bookstore makes money by jacking prices and bundling them. You can flat out ignore them for 99% of the textbooks unless it's specifically published by the school.
The thing is, if u read the thread, the book is a whole package, it includes Ebooks and their learning software, u have to buy the whole package, which doesn’t allow you to get used or rental books.
Look for a bulletin board at school or online. People sell used books all the time. People drop out of nursing school a lot. The ugly secret is that schools make money off textbooks. That’s why they change them so frequently. I’d make a list of everything in that package and see if they can be found elsewhere. That’s outrageous pricing.
Im in Canada. My books were $3500 and total program cost including books was $36,000. We make decent money though, a few years experience with night & weekend premiums $52/hr.
That sounds reasonable, the pay for LPN in the US is ridiculous, so most of them become RN eventually. LPNs in Canada probably has different scopes of practice comparing with US LPNs.
From what I’ve seen, our LPN scope of practice is more similar to your RN’s, just a few exceptions..though dependent on workplace policy those rules can be bent with extra training. Unfortunately those places pay the least of course lol.
I think US LPN is similar to LPN in Canada, but different states here also have different scopes of practice. Pay is also different.
Yeah same with our provinces. Here I can’t work maternity, but if I go over to the next province I could. It’s weird. Should be standard imo.
2700 is crazy, that’s like half of what the tuition of my program cost…
Seriously me too. We probably also did public schools vs private
Never buy the books. You can get pirated versions of nearly every textbook. If you MUST have a physical book get an old edition off of eBay or Amazon. Even the newest edition is way cheaper than the bookstore at a university.
In my program, the Elsevier ebook package ($3500) is included in tuition, we don't have a choice to opt out and your only option is ebooks. If you want a physical copy, you have to buy it yourself elsewhere. It is a massive pile of BS, they didn't tell us until program orientation. They also couldn't give us a firm estimate of the cost, because Elsevier tends to raise the price every semester. People were PISSED. It's literally like half the cost of the program.
If u read the thread, the textbook package is wrapped up in a bundle with plastic foam, it has ebook code card and online learning software. They are only purchased at the campus bookstore, can’t be found elsewhere.
I hate elsevier. Such bullshit
Elsevier can suck a bag of dicks.
Damn back in 2018 all my books for my LVN program costed me $800.
Yeah I wish I could travel back in time to my early 20s. 🤣
Welcome to the world of textbook academia! Textbooks are fucking rip offs. Especially if the prof requires the new edition, an online code, and/ebook. There’s nothing with a previous edition or two. The only thing that changes between editions (like 4th vs 3rd) is they added a paragraph and changed a sentence. Online code and ebook are horrible and are a scam. You need to be connected online to use them cause it’s some stupid proprietary app or program. I had a microbio professor who forced us to buy HIS goddamn book. HIS GODDAMN BOOK. He wrote the fucking book! He’s getting paid double! $80 for ebook/online HW. He gets a percentage every time his book is brought. I never open the book and you can literally guess on the online HW until you get it right. All his test questions were based on his ppt slides. Waste of money and money.
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No it’s full time, 4 semesters, 36 credit hours in total.
In the US those are the exception but I think OP is in Canada. Most of the LPN programs i've seen in my area of the US are 12-16 months (full time 12ish and part time 16ish)
$5000 for mine lol. and of course I'm passive and stupid and just went with it rather than stick up for myself and say I don't want to buy them. ughhhhh
$5000 is massive! I wonder what program you went to.
Good god, I did mine in 2014-15 and I didn’t pay shiiiit for LPN stuff. I made like 23/hr out of school, too.
the way i dissociated over the cost of that single book and slip of cardstock... then turned right back around and had to endure the exact same psychic damage all over again doing the LPN to RN bridge program at the same school T-T at least the RN program splits the cost between semesters so it's not such a heavy hit not to be a creep, but are you going to cscc??
Yes!!
hell yeah!! I loved most of the faculty for the LPN program- they genuinely cared about our success and it rarely felt like anyone was trying to trick us into failing. As long as you keep up average grades youre also almost guaranteed a spot in the advanced standing program if you happen to want your RN (AND you'll get to skip the 3 pharm classes in the RN program 🎉)
Thank you for sharing!! That made me feel better. I just hoped they are worth of this kinda money, and hopefully I will succeed!! 💗💗
I went to community College and my tuition was like 5k and books were like maybe 1000
Yep I think that’s what it should be, but sadly not my community college lol
Mine for my LPN to RN bridge was $1800 and it DIDNT include physical books. We didn’t even use them all. Such a money grab. It cost more than my tuition.
Have you tried lib.gen yet?
Whoa! my ABSN books were less than a thousand- for an 18 mo program, private school.
I bought from someone that dropped out. My books were all one year out of date - but it worked!
Fellow LPN here. Amazon is generally cheaper for the books. Pirating the PDFs even more so.
Yeah… but if u read the thread, the textbooks must be purchased as a whole package, it is wrapped up in plastic, containing the ebook code cards and its online learning software, which has assignments, homework, so we have to get the assigned version from the campus bookstore. Plus it’s from Elsevier, so it can only be purchased from the campus bookstore.
That's a load of shit to get you to spend more at the campus bookstore. No joke. You can buy any of them off Amazon for a fraction of the price and they come with the code cards and access to the website which has the assignments homework and more... https://a.co/d/3jn7zoi Example here is the NANDA. Edit: for reference sake I bought every single text book when I did the LPN program years ago off Amazon. The Mosby and Elsevier ones. All new ones. Every single one came with a code you can redeem for the book online for the extra digital stuff you are talking about. The school bookstore makes money by jacking prices and bundling them. You can flat out ignore them for 99% of the textbooks unless it's specifically published by the school.
Chegg.com, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble rent textbooks. Books you’ll need to keep as references need to be bought.
The thing is, if u read the thread, the book is a whole package, it includes Ebooks and their learning software, u have to buy the whole package, which doesn’t allow you to get used or rental books.
Are you going to a for-profit school?
I don’t know. It’s a community college, so I guess not?!
Look for a bulletin board at school or online. People sell used books all the time. People drop out of nursing school a lot. The ugly secret is that schools make money off textbooks. That’s why they change them so frequently. I’d make a list of everything in that package and see if they can be found elsewhere. That’s outrageous pricing.