Can you take the NCLEX-LPN after taking a yr. of the RN program?

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I've completed one yr. of an RN program, is it possible to take the LPN boards w/o graduating from an LPN program?

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Specializes in Derm/Wound Care/OP Surgery/LTC.

Nope. You have to be a graduate of an licensed and accredited LPN program in order to sit for the NCLEX-LPN.

At least that's Florida state rules. I doubt it's different anywhere else though.

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You will need to check with your state Board. Some states allow this, others do not. Then once you find out that your state does allow it, then you have to check with your nursing school. There are nursing schools that refuse to sign off on the paperwork for their students. Good luck.

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Specializes in Oncology/BMT.

You must attend and complete an approved LPN program in order to be eligible to sit for the NCLEX-PN. LPN's receive fundamentals and basic nursing concepts, medical/surgical, mental health, and maternal-child health in just one year. Typically, diploma and ADN programs focus on fundamentals and nursing concepts and medica/surgical during the first year with mental health, maternal-child health, critical care, and leadership happening in the second year.

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Specializes in Derm/Wound Care/OP Surgery/LTC.
You will need to check with your state Board. Some states allow this, others do not. Then once you find out that your state does allow it, then you have to check with your nursing school. There are nursing schools that refuse to sign off on the paperwork for their students. Good luck.

Really? I never knew that. Wish I had. I would have challenged the NCLEX LPN a long time ago!! :chuckle

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Specializes in LTC/Rehab, Med Surg, Home Care.
I've completed one yr. of an RN program, is it possible to take the LPN boards w/o graduating from an LPN program?

I was eligible to sit for the LPN boards after completion of the first year of my ADN program. Depends on your school, possibly your state. I'm in Wisconsin.

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Specializes in Foot care.

In Massachusetts, you can sit for the NCLEX-LPN after completing 3 years of a 4 year program IF you have withdrawn in good standing from your RN degree program. Kind of a weird stipulation, I think.

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After 1 year of my ADN program in Arizona, I could have done a summer class on pediatrics, or was it geriatrics, and then I could sit for the LPN boards. But, I didn't think there was much point because after I do the summer session, study for the NCLEX-LPN, and sit the exam, and then find a job as an LPN, which is hard to find for a new grad, I would have my ADN in nursing.

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Specializes in ICU.
I was eligible to sit for the LPN boards after completion of the first year of my ADN program. Depends on your school, possibly your state. I'm in Wisconsin.

Is that still standing? I live in Milwaukee, hence why I ask.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ED.
I was eligible to sit for the LPN boards after completion of the first year of my ADN program. Depends on your school, possibly your state. I'm in Wisconsin.

Same here, except I'm not in Wisconsin.

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Specializes in Surgery, Tele, OB, Peds,ED-True Float RN.

In many places in Canada if you finish 1 year of the 4 year BN program you can sit for the LPN national exam.

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Specializes in LTC/Rehab, Med Surg, Home Care.
Is that still standing? I live in Milwaukee, hence why I ask.

I graduated from the Wisconsin Technical College System, with the LPN in December of 2007 and my RN in December of 2008.

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