Failed NCLEX-PN. Can't take NCLEX-RN?

[punkstar]

Hello,

I'm having hard time understanding my situation with school and NCLEX exams.

I'm currently enrolled in a 2-year program that provides an associates degree in nursing.

I'm in my last nursing course before I graduate in May.

Last summer 2006 I attended our optional LPN course. I passed the course, however failed the NCLEX-PN exam sometime August 2006.

Nevertheless, I continued my 3rd semester onwards toward getting my chance at NCLEX-RN.

So here I am. With less than two weeks of me taking HESI, having me eligible to sit down for the NCLEX-RN, my friend calls me and tells me that she read somewhere that if you didn't pass your NCLEX-PN, you can't take the NCLEX-RN. She mentioned that I would first need to pass the NCLEX-PN to be able to take NCLEX-RN. Is this true?

LPN school was optional for me and even though I passed the course but failed the NCLEX-PN exam, am I really prevented of taking the NCLEX-RN?

[Scrubz]

Ask the advisors at your school, they should know what's going on.

If you were doing LPN-RN I guess it would have made sense to have needed to pass the NCLEX-PN, but if you were doing LPN, then ditched to go do an ASN program then I don't see why you would have needed to already have an LPN licence, therefore I don't see why you would have needed to passed the NCLEX-PN. So my guess would be that you don't have to worry. But I'm not 100% certain, so to be sure I'd ask your dean of nursing or your advisor or someone else who knows more about it.

Good luck!

[EricJRN, MSN, RN]

Ask the advisors at your school, they should know what's going on.

:yeahthat: Your state board of nursing would be a good source as well.

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

I was in a 1+1 program in Las Vegas which allowed for taking the NCLEX-PN after the first year of the program. However, if you proceded on to the NCLEX-RN, it didn't matter if you were an LPN or not. I would check with the advisor of your school to see about your situation.