any foreign nurses?

Welcome to the site

What sort of visa are you in the US with? This will help us give a more appropriate answer. Saying that if trained in the US then I think English exams are exempt. But if looking at ways to getting a work visa to stay in the US then LPN will not do it. (Why I ask what sort of visa you are on

If your training will be accepted for the LPN category, there is no reason to go back to school for more training for that. You can prepare for the exam on your own and then get an extended orientation period when you get a job.

But you will need to have your training evaluated first.

That is for you to decide what to do. There are nurses here all of the time that graduated that long ago and did not work before. But again, you are going to need to make the decision on that, but also be aware that most hospitals are no longer employing LPNS, suggest that you check out the job market of where you are before you do anything.

But we ask that you only place your question in one thread, not in multiple places here. It makes it hard to follow. And against the TOS of this forum.

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There is an LVN (LPN in other states) in our hospital located here in San Francisco, Ca. who took the accelerated RN program. She said it was very expensive, it cost her almost $50,000 for the program, and very demanding. She said her classes were conducted almost all day, then she would go home and study all night. She only got 3-4 hours of sleep while she was in the accelerated RN program. She had no choice because all the LVN positions in our in-patient units will be totally eliminated by 2010.

Happy to report that she finished the program and had just passed NCLEX here in California.

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