Foreign trained MD with unemployment grant- take LPN or Excelsior RN?

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I hope you'd be able to advise me on this. I am a foreign-trained doctor who had been displaced in my job (replaced by an RN) & receiving unemployment benefits. I just learned that I had been approved to receive a small amount of money fromthe Dept. of Labor for training purposes. I initially planned to enroll for an LPN program & continue to become an RN later. I will be adding 16K to the amount I'll receive to take the LPN course. Now, I recently learned about Excelsior. My questions:

1. Can anybody advise me if the Excelsior route to become an RN would be more practical in my case?

2. Which route would be less costly?

3. Do you have any idea if there are any foreign doctors who took the Excelsior route to be an RN & got hired?

BTW, I have 4 years of clinical experience before I came here to the US to start a family. My husband is a US citizen, and I am now, too.

Thanks for your help in advance.

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

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