get my LVN certificate?

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I am currently in school in an RN to BSN two year program that will leave me only lacking 30credit hours of having a BSN but I'm not sure if working and school is going good for me. That being said there is a place I can get my LVN certificate, so I was wondering if i could get my certificate then go back to school or if staying in school to get a BSN would be faster/better? I'm 21 BTW.

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

Some of your post just doesn't make much sense. If you're truly in an RN to BSN program, that would mean that you're already an RN, so you wouldn't need an LVN license. I'm going to base my advice on the assumption that you're not an RN nor an LVN and you're in a BSN program. If your program would leave you 30 units short of a BSN at the time you complete your education, then it's possibly not actually a BSN program, unless you're 30 units short on the general education side of things.

I wouldn't suggest getting your LVN license at this point because once you're an LVN, you might be able to later go through (formally) an LVN to RN program but that's going to take quite a bit of time to reach the BSN. The reason for this is that you'll still have to do about a year's worth of coursework to become an RN and then you'll have to go through an RN to BSN program which can be another 2-3 semesters on it's own. If you're missing GE coursework, you'd still have to complete all of that before you could have your BSN degree conferred upon you. You can knock out 30 units in 2 semesters if you're able to take on a 15 unit/semester load.

Those of you that are going for LVN, please don't think I'm maligning the VN's... it's just that this particular poster wants to (apparently) complete a BSN education somehow and in this case, I think that doing an LVN to RN to BSN upgrade path would just slow things down unnecessarily.

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I'm a LVN and I agree with you 100%. It will slow you down.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

I think OP may be enrolled in an ADN program & wondering about becoming licensed as an LVN instead. In Tx, you have to graduate from a BON-approved LVN program in order to be eligible to sit for NCLEX-PN. Unless the current program is a 'ladder' program that starts with LVN & then moves on to RN... it is not possible just to 'pause' RN education and go for LVN instead.

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