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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!
punkstar
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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?