challenging the rn board

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i will be graduating today as an rn..afteri am off paying my dues as an lvn. although i am excited i can't help to feel a little bummed out, since my friends did not "make it" she got 73% on her final.. granted passing is 75%. my friend had good grades. but she always said she just could not make any sense of pysch. so in the end it was her downfall. she spoke with the instructor who put her foot down and said that she had to repeat the last 9 weeks of the semester agin. now the thing is that another student did not pass as well but his grade got changed...i can testify that. so my friend wants to challenge the boeards. she is an lvn, has been for the past 3 years. all she didn't complete was psych. my question is can she challenge the california rn board. can it be done and how? well i appreciate any info...for now i need some beauty rest...don't want to come out in my pics with bags under my eyes lol :nurse:

Specializes in ER, PACU.

I dont think you can challenge the RN boards in any state. An LPN and an RN are not the same thing. I am not saying that one is a better or worse nurse than another, but thier education is different. Similar, but different none-the-less. If I was a paralegal for 5 years, does that mean I should be able to take the Bar exam? Working for a law firm may make me very knowledgable about the practice of law, but if I want to sit for the bar exam, I need to go to law school first. Its the same thing. I was an LPN before I was an RN, and although there were many things that were similar, RN school was much more in depth than LPN school was. I though for sure that when I went into RN school that I would coast through, I sure got a reality check!

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