I'm a new registered user, but I often visited the site and have learned a lot. I just wanted to know if anyone out there decided to take the LPN test while finishing the RN? And if so, did you find it difficult to distinguish the LPN's limitations in comparison to the RN? In other words, are there questions on the test that can answered incorrectly if you answer from an RN's perspective?
Thank you. Any reply would be greatly appreciated!
hi im a canadian citizen but finished my 4 year BSN in the Philippines. i am back in canada but will be going back to the philippines for my licensure exam. now i was wondering can i take the LPN test for the six months im in canada and work? and then can i still take my nursing licensure exam later on? is that possible. and what kind of work can i get with just a degree in BSN?? please help i really want to work and gain experience please please help
Canadian nursing exams are only written three times a year. There is a time line for application. I think the deadline for the end of September CPNE is fast approaching as is CRNE.
It would take you longer than six months to get the paperwork in order due to being a foreign grad. In the last couple of years, many provinces have found glitches in the BScN degrees issued in the Phillipines. They don't meet the required hours for Canadian practice permits and many nurses have to undergo the SEC assessment.
BScNs without a practice permit can often find work in pharmaceutical sales but very few employers in today's economy will want to invest in someone who only plans on being around for a few months. And trust me, at the interviews they are very good at finding things out.
You need to spend some time reading the stickies in the Canadian and International forums concerning nurses educated in the Phillipines and migration to Canada and the US as a nurse. You may be a Canadian Citizen but by choosing to obtain your education in a foreign country, you will be required to undergo the same evaluation as any other nurse educated there. Your only benefit is you already have a SIN and are able to work.
Getting permission to work as an LPN should never be considered a consolation prize for not being able to work as an RN.
You need to speak to the advisors at your nursing school since the school has to sign off on your LPN application anyway. First find out from your state Board whether this is allowed in your state. Then get the application done and go to the school to get them to sign off on it.
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My previous answer was meant for you. It will do you no good to make plans if this is not allowed in your state. If it is allowed in your state but your school refuses to cooperate, it still will do you no good to make plans. There are schools that refuse to sign the LPN applications of their students.
hi im a canadian citizen but finished my 4 year BSN in the Philippines. i am back in canada but will be going back to the philippines for my licensure exam. now i was wondering can i take the LPN test for the six months im in canada and work? and then can i still take my nursing licensure exam later on? is that possible. and what kind of work can i get with just a degree in BSN?? please help i really want to work and gain experience please please help
The "LPN test" (Canadian Practical Nursing Resistration Exam) is a NURSING licensure exam, thank you very much.
Oh, and even if you could do the above, which is highly unlikely due to the reasons mentioned by Fiona59, good luck on finding a job. No one is hiring right now. And those who happend to get on casual (LPN) are working MAYBE 2-6 shifts a month. In my area anyways.
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hi im a canadian citizen but finished my 4 year BSN in the Philippines. i am back in canada but will be going back to the philippines for my licensure exam. now i was wondering can i take the LPN test for the six months im in canada and work? and then can i still take my nursing licensure exam later on? is that possible. and what kind of work can i get with just a degree in BSN?? please help i really want to work and gain experience please please help
From the wording of this post, I think we need to provide a quick, but necessary inservice. The letters in LPN mean Licensed Practical NURSE, which means that we had to successfully complete a NURSING program, sit for "nursing licensure" test for Licensed Practical Nurses called NCLEX-PN. The difference between Licensed Practical Nurses and Registered Nurses is the scope of practice-which each state decides what they allow their nurses to do.
I just can't phantom how people can think that LPNs give medications, do treatments, learn the disease process, assessments (Oops...I meant data gathering), critically think, do care plans, pick up doctor's orders, but are NOT nurses. It is almost like the RN programs feel it is not worth their time to explain what role we have, and for all of the time, money and energy spent on an RN program, it should be illustrated better.
This is in no way an attack on the person who wrote this post, but this is an example of what polarizes the two titles that continues this LPN/RN war.
But in Canada, we use CPNRE for our national exam. My scope is soo close to the RNs it's nearly criminal. In my province, the old diploma RN educational programme is used at the PN schools.
This is just another case of going offshore for a cheaper education and knowing nothing about the system in which employment is sought.
Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
I find that the LPN role expands and collapes based on convienence. For example, an agency I work for as a vaccine nurse has decided to decrease the pay of the RNs because of the budget crisis and left our salary alone for now. However, I have an assignment tomorrow with a new RN, but I am considered to be the point person or teamleader because I have more experience in that particular role for that particular agency. Now, it has been a written rule that they cannot send an LPN out on the field alone, however, now, I was asked to accept another assignment in a few weeks, where I will basically be alone with a clerical person and a phlebotomist, and I can contact the RN by telephone if there are any issues.
I have no issue with this, really...I need to say that first. But, I am observing this: If I am deciding what to contact this RN about first, then, really, who is doing the assessment? Part of the assessment process is deciding when intervention and/or consultation has to be made with a person with more experience, expertise and power than yourself. And, this person is taking the information that I am providing (not being sure if it is really complete or not) and making a decision based on the report provided by the LPN.
I know that this agency is 'using' me because they can get the same service for less money. To be honest, all of us...CNAs, LPNs, RNs, etc are being bamboozled due to the state of today's affairs. That is fine with me...we all need to eat. However, my main beef is that it needs to simply be acknowledged that LPNs ARE in fact nurses...not sidekicks, not second best, not being judged as 'less than'. And, you are correct...obtaining the LPN license should not be considered as a conselation prize.
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hi im a canadian citizen but finished my 4 year BSN in the Philippines. i am back in canada but will be going back to the philippines for my licensure exam. now i was wondering can i take the LPN test for the six months im in canada and work? and then can i still take my nursing licensure exam later on? is that possible. and what kind of work can i get with just a degree in BSN?? please help i really want to work and gain experience please please help