Employed Nursing Student does not equal LPN

What you are writing is a facility or health authority specific exam. Not the equivalent of the CPRNE. Look at the cost involved have you paid the fees to write and the yearly license fee? If so, then you have written CPRNE. If not, you are an employed student working as such, not an LPN via a "challenged exam".

Actually you can challenge the exam if you meet the requirements at least here in BC. I know quite a few BC RN students that have challenged the exam and are working as LPNs. You have to have your transcripts, proof you've had enough hours doing both clinical and theory courses in specific areas (maternity, geriatrics, med/surg, etc.). The wording "Challenge" actually comes from CLPN. When I emailed and phoned to find out about it they said they'd send me a "challenge" package so that I could be evaluated.

You have to pay over $200 to be evaluated and have a criminal record check and then if they approve you - you can write the exam. I am working as an employed student nurse this summer (as I did last summer) but am planning on writing the LPN exam in September. I feel that I, and others who have posted, know the difference. When my colleagues work as LPNs they are not allowed to start IVs; administer IV meds, treat wounds where the wound bed cannot be visualized, etc but when they work as ESNs they are able to do all of these things.

When I write it - if I pass - the licensing fees will be paid by the health authority that I'm working in -- they're so short of LPNs that they're encouraging us to do this even if its only for a year or so.

Thats the way it works in BC anyway. The process takes months and can be frustrating but it is possible. Maybe its different where you live.