Can RN student apply for LPN lisence?

JustBeachyNurse, LPN · Nov 5, 2011

No you cannot. In NJ only those who completed a practical nursing program are eligible to sit for the NCLEX-PN. RN students are ineligible to sit for the NCLEX-PN in NJ as the programs are not interchangeable. Most RN programs do not cover adult, pedi, mental health, geriatrics, and OB/maternal child in the first year of the program but the education is split over the full two years of the ASN or four years of the BSN program. "45:11-27. Practical nursing a. Qualifications of applicants. An applicant for a license to practice practical nursing shall submit to the board evidence in such form as the board may prescribe that the applicant (1) has attained his or her eighteenth birthday; (2) is of good moral character, is not an habitual user of drugs and has never been convicted or has not pleaded nolo contendere, non vult contendere or non vult to an indictment, information or complaint alleging a violation of any Federal or State law relating to narcotic drugs; (3) has completed 2 years of high school or the equivalent thereof, as determined by the New Jersey State Department of Education; (4) has completed a course of study in a school of practical nursing approved by the board and holds a diploma therefrom, or holds a diploma from a school of practical nursing operated by a board of education in this State and is certified by the Department of Education as having completed the number of hours of instruction in the subjects in the curriculum prescribed by the board and an approved course of affiliation or has equivalent qualifications as determined by the board." (source: http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/laws/nursinglaws.pdf )