LPN Licensure for RN'S?

RNmaria · Sep 5, 2004

I live outside of Lebanon and would like to get into the NHTI-Claremont Program for RN. I am told they only have 16 spots each year...so I keeping my options open to get into the LPN Program and do the "bridge" to RN after. I am scheduled to take the pre-NLN on Oct 14.

So have you already been accepted into the LPN Program? Are you at the Concord NHTI?

Thanks for responding!

Pasha :)

I have applied to NHTI for the 2005 LPN program and am currently working on my "needs" list. When will you be taking your exam? do you live near concord?

Darcifly · Sep 5, 2004

I am in SC, but was in Manchester NH as recently as 2001. My husband started his nursing school at NHTI in Concord then transferred to NHCTC in Manchester and graduated from a ADN program here in SC. I will always recommend a RN program over a LPN program if it is feasible. If you can use the time to get all the pre-reqs out of the way while awaiting entrance into a RN program it is desirable. The waiting lists all over the US for ADN RN programs are terrible. If at all possible for you a 4 year BSN program is the best option, and you can usually get quicker entry. UNH-Durham and Colby Sawyer (New London) offer this in NH as well as some private Universities in Southern NH (St. Anselms and Rivier). Even if you get your LPN or ADN-RN, most all hospital systems will finance you going back to school for a BSN. I worked at Concord Hospital for a good while and I do not remember them employing many LPNs. Here in the South they are more utilized. Hope this helps. :) Darci

asilgh · Sep 5, 2004

I live outside of Lebanon and would like to get into the NHTI-Claremont Program for RN. I am told they only have 16 spots each year...so I keeping my options open to get into the LPN Program and do the "bridge" to RN after. I am scheduled to take the pre-NLN on Oct 14.
So have you already been accepted into the LPN Program? Are you at the Concord NHTI?
Thanks for responding!
Pasha :)

No, they do not make the selection until after October 1st. Yes, I have applied to Concord NHTI. If I do not get in, I will take a chemistry course and apply to RN programs for fall 2005.

LisaGH

RNmaria · Sep 5, 2004

So did you take the pre-nln yet?

pasha:)

No, they do not make the selection until after October 1st. Yes, I have applied to Concord NHTI. If I do not get in, I will take a chemistry course and apply to RN programs for fall 2005.
LisaGH

EwwThat'sNasty · Oct 13, 2004

Hey All,
I am currently an RN associates degree Nurse and about to finish my first semester. I currently am attending college in Mass. and recently heard that after my first year of attending school, I can take the LPN NCLEX Exam in New Hampshire but not here in Mass. Has anyone else heard of such a thing, or have any pertinent information to share? As we all know as Nursing Students, financially it is a real burden during school, and something like the LPN licensure would be so helpful in my pursuits.... what do you guys think?

Many programs for the ADN in NH do not cover areas such as Maternal Child within the first year. I asked this question after completing my first year in a NH ADN program, and the answer was a simple "no." Simple because my program had not covered all the essential areas. It may be that you can sit in NH for the test, if, and only if, your RN first year curriculum includes all the required areas.

Interestingly, if you do manage this, I wonder if NH-MA reciprocity would allow you to slip back into a LPN in MA? I doubt it...but who knows.

RedSox33RN · Oct 23, 2004

At our school, and I think all others, you can't sit for the LPN until you are 3 semesters through the RN program. Many do it, I've heard, for NCLEX practice, or to start working before taking the RN NCLEX and finishing out the final semester. I just wouldn't have time though, so I don't plan on it.