best track for LPN and Non-nursing bachelor

[ashley beau]

Hello! I am new to this site, and have found many helpful threads in the past, however, none for my specific confusion, and I was hoping someone could offer some help!

I currently live in Chicago and have my bachelor degree in a non-nursing degree(business-com) from ASU. I am due to graduate with my LPN degree from Ambria College of Nursing in a few months, and wanted to know my options.. my biggest concern is duration to complete a program.

I am up for any insight and suggestions. I think I want to either do an LPN to BSN degree, or maybe an LPN to MSN degree, or really anything else that I dont know/cant think of, that someone else can! I am completely stuck and do not know my options, nor how to research all of my options. I was hoping someone who is educated on the topic could throw some programs/ideas/insight my way.

THank you!

[verene, MSN]

I doubt there are LPN to MSN programs (though I could be wrong). So your two primary option to getting through MSN would be

1) LPN to ADN/RN and then ADN/RN to MSN program (search online there are many options)

2) LPN to BSN, then BSN to MSN (fewer LPN to BSN programs, but there are some in Illinois search "LPN to BSN Illinois" online).

LPN to BSN is probably the more versatile option, but it would help to know what your end goal is careerwise, and then work backwards to figure out the options for getting to that goal from where you are.

[Rionoir, ADN, RN]

From a financial perspective, getting your ADN and then letting your employer help pay for the rest would make the most sense. Not sure what the market is like in Chicago, but in the Milwaukee area you can easily get a job at the major hospitals with an ADN as long as you are going to be continuing to BSN, and they seem to pay about $6,000 a year for education from what I've seen so far.

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

On 5/10/2019 at 2:27 PM, verene said:

I doubt there are LPN to MSN programs (though I could be wrong). So your two primary option to getting through MSN would be

1) LPN to ADN/RN and then ADN/RN to MSN program (search online there are many options)

2) LPN to BSN, then BSN to MSN (fewer LPN to BSN programs, but there are some in Illinois search "LPN to BSN Illinois" online).

LPN to BSN is probably the more versatile option, but it would help to know what your end goal is careerwise, and then work backwards to figure out the options for getting to that goal from where you are.

The OP has a non nursing Bachelors degree. There ARE MSN programs for those who have a non nursing Bachelors degrees. She could have skipped the LPN program and gone straight into one of the direct MSN programs.