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Are there nursing schools that will approve 6 months lvn work experience to apply for a bridge program instead of the one year work experience?

I've completed english, public speaking and humanity class. I'm on the waitlist for a 5 week schedule anat/phys/micro and hope to get in this Fall. Its a 16 week course and covers all the sciences in 5 weeks each. After that I can start applying to nursing schools and finishing up the rest of my coreqs. I hope to find a school in TN that does not require work experience.

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Are there nursing schools that will approve 6 months lvn work experience to apply for a bridge program instead of the one year work experience?

If you live here in Flint Michigan Mott Community College if it is within one year of graduation from LPN program your eligible or one year experience

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Specializes in Emergency and Critical Care.

When I was an LPN, Texas, I had the option to take a medical and a surgical exam to challenge the first year or take the full 2 years, at that time I am not sure about the requirement for working, because I had been a critical care nurse for 10 years, this was when they were phasing us out of ICU's. Now as a Director of an LPN program, I am totally confused as to why, if an LPN has their pre req's and meets the qualifications for the RN program there would be a waiting period. I require the CNA for the LPN students, the RN program does not require this. The LPN would enter the third semester which is maternal child health and they already had a semester on that. Work experience is a poor (in my opinion) reason to delay students who are qualified to enter the RN program, especially since many of the 3rd semester students do not have pre exposure or working experience beyond their first 2 semesters. Another reason I have heard was to help the students adjust in the mental change from an LPN to RN. My thought is that it would be better to move them along so they did not fall into the mental role as an LPN for as long and they would adjust quicker to the RN role.

I would Love for someone to explain to me a logical reason as to the one year waiting period for LPN's to apply for an RN student position. Because thus far I have not heard one. This is something I am working very hard at changing at our community college, and I hope that I will succeed.

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If you live here in Flint Michigan Mott Community College if it is within one year of graduation from LPN program your eligible or one year experience

I wish California was just as flexible as some of the states offering different options for the lvn-rn bridge

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When I was an LPN, Texas, I had the option to take a medical and a surgical exam to challenge the first year or take the full 2 years, at that time I am not sure about the requirement for working, because I had been a critical care nurse for 10 years, this was when they were phasing us out of ICU's. Now as a Director of an LPN program, I am totally confused as to why, if an LPN has their pre req's and meets the qualifications for the RN program there would be a waiting period. I require the CNA for the LPN students, the RN program does not require this. The LPN would enter the third semester which is maternal child health and they already had a semester on that. Work experience is a poor (in my opinion) reason to delay students who are qualified to enter the RN program, especially since many of the 3rd semester students do not have pre exposure or working experience beyond their first 2 semesters. Another reason I have heard was to help the students adjust in the mental change from an LPN to RN. My thought is that it would be better to move them along so they did not fall into the mental role as an LPN for as long and they would adjust quicker to the RN role.

I would Love for someone to explain to me a logical reason as to the one year waiting period for LPN's to apply for an RN student position. Because thus far I have not heard one. This is something I am working very hard at changing at our community college, and I hope that I will succeed.

I really do hope you succeed. One of the schools thaat I'm taking pre reqqs recently told me they just added the "required one year work experience" for the lvn-rn bridge. My counselor said they just passed it this year. Why? I don't know. I also agree with you that I find it pointless if someone wants to advance in their career sooner than later. I can understand 6 months requirement if you had to "add some type of nurse experience" , but one year? What sucks is I can not challenge the LVN board because I have five years experience but only worked on a pysch hospital and have over 200+ hours instead of the state requirement of 50+ hrs med/surg and pharmocology class. I wish I can challenge the LPN at least especially working in a pysch hospital for five years.

I'm desperately looking for an outlet outside of california.

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Keep in mind that other states do things differently. For example in some states you do your theory for say med/surg in one term and the clinical in another. This is not allowed in california and you will not be able to get your nursing license in this state if you attend one of those programs. If you plan to come back to California I would check with the BRN before attending any out of state school.

And retaking those one or two classes is not easy. My school just did had a cohort of people who had waited years to find a school willing to let them do just a med/surg. I have no idea why but my school isn't planning on doing it again either.

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I wish California was just as flexible as some of the states offering different options for the lvn-rn bridge

I can so relate. I moved from northern california to Southern California to attend an LVN to BSN. This state desperately needs more programs like it. Sadly I think we'll be the only LVN to BSN class, even though so far half my class has taken the RN boards and passed. We haven't had a fail yet.

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Specializes in Emergency and Critical Care.

Don't give up, I have seen many things come and go and come around again. With the cost of health care and the nursing shortage in different areas, the LPN will continue to be an asset.

There are many different LPN programs some are pure certificate, some are vocational and they have all their courses intermingled together, these do not generally transfer, then there are associate programs that are set up to flow directly into the RN program.

Each state has their own differing programs and you need to see which ones will articulate into RN programs.

Back in my day the Medical and surgical tests were all that was needed to challenge because the RN programs do not generally have maternal child health until the third semester. So even though as an LPN I had taken MCH I just retook it and learned new and more advanced practices. It was all good. Even if you have to take the full RN program, look at as a learning experience, you are bound to learn many new things, I know it is costly but so is human life. I will let you know I failed both the medical and surgical exams by one question a piece at first I was pretty upset with myself. I had been a critical care nurse for 10 years, I thought, I should have known that, but as we all know med/surg nursing is much different from critical care. I took the entire program, and am a better nurse for it. I was comfortable enough to explore the opportunities to learn new things. My instructors gave me opportunities that they did not necessarily give those who did not have previous experience. I was allowed to do much more with pediatric patients as a student.

This was during the time of AIDS as it was being named. Many nurses did not want to take care of these patients, so I would spend the day with them in their room with full isolation garments. I learned so very much, I had awesome instructors, I did a great deal of peer teaching. I was very good at starting IV's so my instructors would use me to give demonstrations. Maybe this is where I got my teaching bug, who knows. But, what I am saying is look at it as a positive if you have to take the full program, ignore those who look down on you and think LPN's are less, because I still think most nurses who have worked their way up the ladder can run circles around the ones who have not. Be secure in your knowledge and seek more. And above all, stand for what is right, even if you stand alone.

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Hi. I will be relocating from Florida to upstate ny with a Florida lpn license. Are there any lpn to rn bridge programs in the upstate ny area?

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