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Completing the LPN program will enable you to enter the workforce as a nurse a lot sooner. In some settings, such as long term care, there really isn't that much of a difference between what a LPN can do and what a RN can do. ( For example, in my state, the main difference is that an LPN can not work with a non-peripheral IV line. At work, I do everything else that the RNs do, including being a charge nurse.)
Once you are an LPN, there are several avenues available to continue your studies and become an RN, not all of which require actual attendance at a brick and mortar school. (And a few of them will be OK with a C in Anatomy and Phys. )
Look into your options, you might be surprised.
Completing the LPN program will enable you to enter the workforce as a nurse a lot sooner. In some settings, such as long term care, there really isn't that much of a difference between what a LPN can do and what a RN can do. ( For example, in my state, the main difference is that an LPN can not work with a non-peripheral IV line. At work, I do everything else that the RNs do, including being a charge nurse.)Once you are an LPN, there are several avenues available to continue your studies and become an RN, not all of which require actual attendance at a brick and mortar school. (And a few of them will be OK with a C in Anatomy and Phys. )
Look into your options, you might be surprised.
I totally agree. I'm guessing maybe you are in Ohio? It's the same for me. Getting your LPN is not a bad thing! You can get a lot of experience while working and you CAN go back to school. There are many online LPN to RN programs out there.
that sucks they changed the rule. you can take both the entrance exams for both the lpn and rn and see which one accepts you. there is no guarantee you will get in either so better to have more option. if you do the lpn, you can do a distance lpn-rn program later on like from excelsior college. good luck!
sotochristine
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Hello,
I have currently been going to hostos comm. college here in nyc for two years of pre req's for the RN/ASN program. i was doing great so far, but just so happen one semester I was having really bad health problems and had gallbladder surgery. My grades reflected that because i was in constant pain, for a long time. I ended up getting a "c" in a crucial anatomy and phys 2. class. Although i had done this class in 2009, and the school rules were at the time it was okay to take the entrance exam for clinicals if You had a "c" and above. So i thought ok I scaved by, and my GPA was good. So now last semester I tried to register to take the NLN and ATI to get inside the program and subsequently denied because they told me they changed the rule in 2010 no more "c's" its now b- and above and they want me to pay out of pocket 800 bucks to retake the class which now sets my grad date back to 2014/15? i was ******! then they told me just to take the LPN program and be happy with that if I didnt want to retake the class, and take the entrance exams for that program. I want to be an RN! I found beth isreal that would except my transfer credits but I need to take the RN NLN entrance and apply to see if they will except, and take out an expensive loan, they are VERY expensive to go there. Or take the NLN LPN entrance and be done with it and go to work with that. I am a single mom, and know for sure once I start work, i wont be able to go back to school. so i am afraid if i take the LPN, i will never advance beyond that. i wont be able to do work and rn classes too. I have a special needs child. These test run in the same months and I am not sure what to do? take both rn and lpn test? (OMG) or just risk it and take either or. UHHHHHHHH! i am so confused, this school totally sucks. I know they want nurses to be book genius these days and get A pluses all the time, but thats not possible for everyone. & im not science or math wiz, and feel so stressed that nursing schools take advantage of that, & there are so many hopefuls to be a nurse they make the standards to unatainable sometimes. HELP!