protocol to challenge board to become RN

[1966nurse]

I am an LVN and have been for 12+ years. I have recently heard that I could challenge the board (with my years of work experience) and once approved I could sit for the RN boards. Does anyone know about this? PLEASE HELP!!!

[Sheri257]

Just because some of you are residents of CA does not mean that you have to constantly make condescending remarks about Excelsior in New York.

heather/

Hey Heather. Perhaps Vsummer1 did go a little overboard. But Chris shouldn't have mentioned Excelsior in the first place. Not only is it irrelant to the topic at hand, but her conclusions were totally inaccurate. I mean, honestly, when someone makes outrageous statements like that, it's going to stir up controversy, especially when it's not true.

My point is that both sides need to make an effort. I don't know why Chris made those statements, because there really was no cause or reason for it. But if she had stuck with the facts, or at least tried to learn them, we wouldn't be talking about this now.

So many controversies could be avoided if people would simply read and pay attention to the previous posts, before jumping the gun and making unfounded allegations.

*Sigh*

[misscelly]

Hello All,

I personally know someone who challenged the board (here in CA), to become an RN. She was a CNA for many many years, set for the RN licensure exam, passed and became a RN.

Misscelly

[egglady, LPN]

Not likely. I have been a LPN for 15 years, I could NOT fathom "challenging" the RN boards. I have not had the education to become a RN. Give me a break. RN's have a title that they have EARNED, so do LPN's, and CNA's. GO to school, get the education and EARN it...

[caliotter3]

The only CNAs who took the RN boards in CA that I ever heard of held a BSN degree and RN license from the Philippines. They were working as CNAs while getting their act together to take the RN boards. But there is a provision on the RN application for people who are not graduates of an RN program to take the Boards. Like everything else I would suppose that one would have to find out from the Board what the stipulations are.

[sunray12]

I don’t see why some people on this board get their feathers so ruffled about this issue. This is an old thread but at the time that OP started it, she states that she had 12 years of LPN experience which is certainly a sufficient amount of time in which s/he could have acquired enough knowledge to “test in” to the RN license. If the law in her state has a provision which allowed her to do this then there is no reason why she shouldn’t take this option to get her RN if she can pass the requisite test(s).

I’ve seen one poster after another state that they didn’t learn much of anything in nursing school and all their learning began on the job after school. In a hands on profession such as nursing, I’d be all for a licensing process where people had the option of learning on the job and then passing an exam for a license instead of spending years flubbing through textbooks that have very little to do with the day to day work that nurses do once they are licensed.

[itsdakine]

You can challenge the LVN Boards in California but only with military training and you can do a 30 credit plan in CA, and you can sit for the RN Boards. If you pass that license can only be used in california.

[cdelmendo]

post military trying to challenge the RN board... is it possible?

post military can only challenge the "LVN" board not the RN board??

[Batman25]

post military trying to challenge the RN board... is it possible?

Call your state BON. I believe you will have to complete about 30 credits to sit for the exam. You can bang that out in a year. Good luck.

[smartnurse1982]

Hello All,

I personally know someone who challenged the board (here in CA), to become an RN. She was a CNA for many many years, set for the RN licensure exam, passed and became a RN.

Misscelly

How can a cna possibly get the hands on training,skills,and critical thinking to challenge the rn boards?

[caliotter3]

How can a cna possibly get the hands on training,skills,and critical thinking to challenge the rn boards?

Possibly could have been a foreign-trained RN who had not passed the boards in that time. We had an LVN where I used to work who could not pass the RN boards to save her own life. Her multiple attempts were legendary in the nursing circles in that area.

[smartnurse1982]

Ok,makes more sense.

[txspadequeenRN, BSN, RN]

i am almost quite positive that in the united states no one can "challenge" the nclex-rn... however, in ca a cna can with the right experience and i think a pharm course can challenge the lvn exam (scary huh).....

how can a cna possibly get the hands on training,skills,and critical thinking to challenge the rn boards?