[bamadoc]

Good Afternoon everyone
I am in the Navy and I am a Hospital Corpsman. I was told that i can challenge the LPN board. If you know that its a true statment please let me know and if ALABAMA allows us to. Thank you for your time and help
John

[agldragon]

I am not sure. But I am sure the board is the best source of info.

Here call them:

Alabama Board of Nursing*
RSA Plaza, Ste. 250
770 Washington Ave.
Montgomery, AL 36104
Mailing Address:
PO Box 303900
Montgomery, AL 36130-3900
Phone: (800) 656-5318
Fax: (334) 242-4360
Website: www.abn.state.al.us/
Email: abn@abn.state.al.us

[midcom]

We had a retired Navy corpsman in our class. Iowa, at least doesn't allow you to challenge. He was very frustrated as his experience & knowledge was pretty extensive. However, he struggled with basic CNA kind of patient care. He dropped out during 3rd term, thinking he could get into a RN program. Today he started back in LPN training.
Dixie

[bamadoc]

Dixie
hey well thank you very much for your help.
John

[midcom]

Good luck to you, John. If you are anywhere as well trained as David was, and you do have to go to school like the rest of us, you will have no problem whatsoever with the classes. You may be bored though, as David was.
Dixie

[SAHMU4IA]

John, in CA, being a medic in the military is one of the criteria for being able to sit for the boards. So check out your state. I certainly HOPE this is the case for you. and above all

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!!

My son is a Sailor and I miss him dearly....

[Silverdragon102]

I am sure I have read somewhere on Allnurses that only 2 states allow this and license can not be endorsed. Have you tried the search facilities?

[SAHMU4IA]

I hope someone can tell me otherwise, but I could not find any American Flag smiley's. Must be an oversight

[Fiona59]

I think your military needs to rethink a few things when it comes to training.

In Canada, our medics have to rotate through a PN programme during their career in order to obtain a license. Then they are sent off to the OR Tech or Ortho Tech programmes (PN license is a requirement of admission to these post-grad courses and the military doesn't have training programmes for it). There were some medics in the semester behind me. They were defintely well skilled, and trained in others that we weren't but they admitted they didn't have the patient care skills we did and none of them objected to being there with us.

[Tweety]

Originally Posted by Fiona59

I think your military needs to rethink a few things when it comes to training.

In Canada, our medics have to rotate through a PN programme during their career in order to obtain a license. Then they are sent off to the OR Tech or Ortho Tech programmes (PN license is a requirement of admission to these post-grad courses and the military doesn't have training programmes for it). There were some medics in the semester behind me. They were defintely well skilled, and trained in others that we weren't but they admitted they didn't have the patient care skills we did and none of them objected to being there with us.

The poster was asking a question. How you do it in Canada and your opinion of the US Military isn't very helpful.