Getting my RN after going to a vocational college

[Ethsmom]

I'm currently attending Centura College, which is like a vocational college, and a CNA, at our clinical site, told my classmate that we can't do an LPN to RN bridge program, and that we will have to start all over and do a 2 year RN program, since our credits don't transfer. I know they don't transfer, but I've looked up pre-reqs to bridge programs, and it seems like as long as you are an LPN and take the pre-reqs, you can enter the program. Does anybody know if I would really have to do a 2 year RN program?

[WideOpenHeart]

Hi! It really varies. Here, depending on your program (some have cooperative agreements with community colleges and universities, while others do not), you might: (1) be able to go directly in to the second year of an RN program (2) Bridge to an RN-ADN or RN-BSN after testing out of about 30 hours; or (3) have to start at the very beginning, as though you'd never done your LPN at all.

It just depends on the school(s) involved.

I'll just bet there's a way you can make it happen!

[HippyDippyLPN]

I went to a vocational school for LPN and this is how my bridge program is set up. You have to most of the pre reqs the other associate degree nurses start with at square one (meaning non LPN students) but once you finish those, your advanced a year into the two year associate nursing program. They don't care what your classes where in LPN school because you have to take the sciences anyways so credit transfers don't matter. Once I enter the core bridge program I will receive my associates in 11 months .

[HippyDippyLPN]

Also my core program will be different than the non LPN core program. We won't have as long as clinicals and we won't review basic LPN tasks we should already know.