Hard time going from LPN to RN????

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I am thinking about becoming a LPN and them moving into the RN program...can someone tell me if that is usually an easy transition or is it hard?

What can LPN's do extra to increase their chances in being accpeted into RN programs?

Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.

I start my ADN program in the fall at a nearby community college.

The program is set up so that you can sit for your LPN boards after the first year (which isn't really your first year, since you had to take pre-req courses before you could even apply to the nursing program). Then (provided you passed!) you can work as an LPN while taking your final two semesters towards your RN.

The hospitals in my town won't hire LPNs at all anymore (haven't for several years now), but the LTC facilities do. It's my hope to be able to work as an LPN in a LTC facility while taking my RN courses, then hopefully have that LPN job turn into an RN job at the same facility (since they'll already know me, etc.).

After I have some RN experience under my belt, I'm planning on applying to a local hospital. Our hospitals have tuition reimbursement, so I'd like to bridge to a BSN but have my employer pay for it.

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No, now wait a minute on you, for taking a cheap shot. You are not allowing me to express how I feel and my opinions. You state your opinion but yet, want to judge. No way are you getting by with it. I advised that I was not concerned about my grammatical errors at the time I was expressing. You cheap thing you!!!!

Now, here is what I want people to understand. Nursing jobs are hard to find, and everybody can feel it. And not just doctor offices and whatever you mentioned are the only ones that are cutting RN positions. Honey, the hospitals are too.

Look, you can stay in your state of denial all you want; I don't give a rats butt* But, telling someone to go be an LPN is the poorest educational advice. No one is hiring LPN's. The LPN programs in Lexington KY will take the LPN classes to the hospitals for clinicals.........BUT GUESS WHAT??????..........ALL THE POOR LPN STUDENTS WILL STAND AROUND AND TAKE NOTICE THAT THESE HOSPITALS DO NOT HIRE LPN'S. SO THERE YOU KNOW IT ALL!!!!!

All the RN's are going for NP degrees, now you tell me, how close is that to being a doctor? Go ahead, I want to

hear you. And the burn out rate for an RN, I do not care if you do go to nursing school BECAUSE YOU WANT TO HELP PEOPLE.

Yes, going to med school is a challenge, being a nurse is not so much.

I would venture to say that you wish not to take any more science classes, but taking care of someone even as a registered nurse is knowing all the science of the human body. You would be SHOCKED at how much better it is being a doctor instead of a nurse. I guess you are just a limited pea brain.

I will participate in this forum, I am a nurse just like you.

And, I repeat, take all the science classes necessary for medical school. Being a doctor is a wave of the future, I guess I just realize this and am a mature person compared to others. This is reality and it is no bad for you to realize and acknowledge that.

I can be a doctor and take care of people too, just like you can as a nurse. But, I will tell you one thing, a lot of care is being taught to the patient to do self care directed by the doctor...period.

I will tell you one thing, you should always as a nurse be doing research, well that is if you have a BA in nursing, an associate well they are not taught the extent of a BA on research....or do you even know what I am talking about? or this over your head too?

I do not have time for your put downs, do you try to embarrass your patients too?

There are some people that just do not get it.

My husband is an attorney, my brother and mother is a doctor, my sister a nurse, another sister who is the DON of a large hospital, and think you have no ambition for the being the best in life :lol2:

Sorry you feel that way:crying2:

But people choose to limit themselves in society :confused: who knows why. I really do not care.

You may thing about switching from being a Nurse and maybe an English teacher :jester: .

I would like to read some of your nurses notes.....wonder how grammatically they are :p. Never thought of that did you?:mad: Sorry, you can get mad all you want....but if you cannot stand the heat...get out of the kitchen :yeah:

And, no do not go from LPN to RN. Go from LPN to medical school, show those RN's. You can be a doctor instead, if you definitely want to apply yourself, it not, then maybe not will be smart enough :eek:

I carry a 3.92 GPA, and that is why I made it into medical school. What is your GPA? :rolleyes: That is what I thought :crying2: so sorry, so sorry.

But, there are a lot of people who can just barely handle being a nurse, that all they are capable of:cool:, and that is fine, doctors need nurses to tell what to do:yeah:

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Why? Why? Why are you so bitter? All she asked was about LPN to RN. I am an LPN bridging to RN. I have no desire to be a doctor and that is my choice not due to lack of ambition or required GPA its just what I want to do.

My husband is a LPN as well and could have pursued a career as a doctor (very intelligent) works as a LPN on surgery/trauma floor in a major hospital. He is also in RN school he plans to continue to NP and I want to be a NE. Congrats on your choice to be a doctor but don't knock others in their dreams and don't try to make what you want to do seem like its better or you are superior to others because the same people you step on going up are the same ones you'll need going down. Nurses save doctors everyday........

To the original poster you should do what ever makes it easier for your situation. MY LPN license helped me get accepted into the RN program as the director said (WE LOOOOVVVVEEEE LPN's They are good students and they do well on boards.):nurse:

FYI...... Being grammatically correct makes your post easier to read and understand.

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.

For what it's worth, I've always been a straight A student -- even was named Psychology Freshman of the Year at an Ivy League level private college -- and I'm CHOOSING to be a nurse rather than a doctor, because I think that I'll be able to do the most good in that position.

Not only that, but I'm able to be happy in my choice and allow others to be happy with their choices. Our society would be in a whole world of hurt (literally and figuratively) if we had a gazillion doctors and no nurses.

Nurses are important. So are garbage truck drivers... our lives would stink (literally and figuratively) if there was nobody to haul off our trash on a regular basis. Think about it.

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Specializes in Addiction / Pain Management.

My doctors office use MA (Medical Assistants) instead of LPN's.

Heck most times I'm in I see the ARNP instead of a real live doctor.

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