LPN Petition to Take RN Boards

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Found from a blog in Advance for LPNs, a petition to allow LPNs with experience to sit for their RN boards. I would love to do that. What does everyone else think? Here is the link:

http://www.petitiononline.com/lps2t/petition.html

Specializes in Cardiac.

Maybe I'm overconfident, but I truthfully don't think so. I know many times I have instructed RNs on what or how or why to do X task or procedure, or why I think Y symptom points to Z disease process.

I personally have instructed many physicians on how to do tasks, which medication is more appropriate, correct doses, etc, etc.

Just yesterday alone, I did this several, several, several times! And not just with residents or fellows. Nope, even with attendings.

Does this mean that I'm better than them, or that I should sit for the medical boards? Nope. It just means I'm a good nurse. It's my job...

Couple this with the OP's proposition that experienced LPNs be allowed to challenge RN boards, and we create the situation where it would be possible for someone with no more than formal CNA education to become a registered nurse. Absurd, don't you agree?

Wow, just 54 months for a CNA to become an LPN?!??!!!

Maybe we can take housekeepers and give them access to WebMD and let them fill in the CNA roles that the CNAs left to be LPNs.

See how this lack of education undermines our profession? LPNs are nurses because of their education-not because they were CNAs and took a pharm course.

RNs also have formal education.

We all have our role. If we wish to progress, then we suck it up and do the education. I'd love to leave the bedside sometime in the distant future. They say I'll need a BSN to do this. So ok, I'm paying the money and taking the classes. If I want to be an APN then I'll take that education too.

The $1,000, actually about $1,100, was just tuition per semester for two semesters. The summer bridge class cost maybe $500. I went to a community college, bought all my books used/resold them and only had 2 scrub uniforms that cost $40 each. I would guess that I probably spent about $3,500 all told. With my wage increase I made that back in about 7 weeks after getting my RN.

Same as my program. My program allows LPNS to enter at 3rd semester. Just prior to that they take a bridge class in the summer (8 weeks long). Then they are mixed in with the ADN students. So they get the same 3rd and 4th semester.

Our program was way less than $1000 a semester. So for the LPN-RN bridge at my school, it was an 8 week summer course, then 2 semesters. Summer course maybe about $200-300, and each semester ~$500-600.

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Hi. I would like to know if there are any LVN/LPN out there who would like to get credit for the work experience we have had orienting RNs to the floor and be allowed to CHALLENGE THE RN BOARDS???? I am willing to work towards changing this new rule ... any takers??

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

Although there are numerous talented LPNs/LVNs in the workforce who could easily challenge the RN boards, the fact remains that this option doesn't exist.

You don't know what you don't know. There's nothing wrong with attending an approved LPN-to-RN bridge brogram, passing the NCLEX-RN, and earning the title of 'registered nurse.' An extra year of educational attainment never hurt anyone.

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Specializes in Homecare Peds, ICU, Trauma, CVICU.
Although there are numerous talented LPNs/LVNs in the workforce who could easily challenge the RN boards, the fact remains that this option doesn't exist.

You don't know what you don't know. There's nothing wrong with attending an approved LPN-to-RN bridge brogram, passing the NCLEX-RN, and earning the title of 'registered nurse.' An extra year of educational attainment never hurt anyone.

:yeahthat:

This has been recently discussed: https://allnurses.com/forums/f99/lpn-petition-take-rn-boards-304372.html

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Threads merged.

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I'D GIVE IT A SHOT JUST TO TEST MYSELF, AND MY OWN STUBBORN PRIDE!!!!!:chuckle

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

OKAY...WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL AND HOW LONG WAS THE PROGRAM, BECAUSE I JUST GRADUATED AND WISH TO START THE RN PROGRAM SOON ALSO. AND 1000$ A SEMESTER? THAT'S CHEAP...WHERE IS THIS?:stone

I'll be honest since I have just taken my RN bridge I think there is quite a bit of value in the extra formal education. My program was a pretty painless short summer mostly independent study class and then the last two semesters of the RN program. I worked the entire time and it only cost just over $1,000 a semester so imo that isn't an unbearable sacrifice if LPNs want to get their RN. I would be infavor of testing out or skipping some of the mundane clinical skills depending on which area the LPN has experience with but I think the theory classes really expanded on what I learned in LPN school.
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I would like to know what school you went to too :)

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
OKAY...WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL AND HOW LONG WAS THE PROGRAM, BECAUSE I JUST GRADUATED AND WISH TO START THE RN PROGRAM SOON ALSO. AND 1000$ A SEMESTER? THAT'S CHEAP...WHERE IS THIS?:stone

I'm in the Balto/DC area and there are at least 5 community colleges I know of that only cost about $85 a credit. I was accpeted into 3 LPN to RN bridge programs and since there is a nursing shortage even if you live out of county, if they will accept out of county residents, you can get the in county tuition rate.

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excellsior sounds too good to be true..how long did it take you and how was the clinicals???

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Specializes in Oncology/Research, Hemodialysis.
Hi. I would like to know if there are any LVN/LPN out there who would like to get credit for the work experience we have had orienting RNs to the floor and be allowed to CHALLENGE THE RN BOARDS???? I am willing to work towards changing this new rule ... any takers??

What hospital do you work at that would allow LPNs to orient RN's??

This is ridiculous....if you want to be an RN....get the education..it'sthat simple! The idea that an LPN that has worked for x amount of years wants the ability to sit for the NCLEX-RN is absoultely ridiculous!!! That would basically throw away all the classwork/clinical work/money spent/and stress and time that it took for me, and thousands others that DID go on and get the education they needed to become an RN!!!

MOST INSANE IDEA EVER!!!

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Actually, I orient new RNs.

I work in a regional hospital. A new hire is buddied with a nurse with experience and then passed onto another nurse to cross check their skills. I've oriented BOTH RNs and LPNs to surgery, LTC, womens health.

The truth may hurt some fragile new nurses but there it is.

The PN diploma is the same education that diploma RNs received in my province. Are you inferring that many experienced RNs with diplomas should not be allowed to mentor either?

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