Lpn to RN fast track

[deebee18]

I have been an Lpn for 13 years. Went back for my RN in 2012 , I finished the RN transition program of 16 months to only fail my final exam by 1 point! I was told to take the last semester over again ( leadership) I signed up for it but then I left my 31 yr marriage and moved two hours away.. in same state. The schools here want me to do their whole 16 month program! I have jumped through hoops taken exam to enter the school and then they want me to take more bio classes before I can get back in the bridge program!! Transition was hell! Even though I was already a nurse. I was devastated by missing it by a point and my life turned upside down! I'm 57 yrs old and sick of jumping through hoops! There needs to be a Lpn to RN program for nurses who have an active license and work full time for at least 10 yrs to get in without an entrance exam or more classes!! I just want my RN!

[Black Coffee, MSN, NP]

I am so sorry that you had to jump many hoops. Life is hard in that way. Sometime in order to get something valuable (I am sure the title RN does), we have to sacrifice and suffer for it. To my understanding, why don't you repeat the failed class at your old school since it is the last class and you failed only by 1 point?

Please don't give up until you get your that title RN.

[nekozuki, LPN]

If you want to avoid hoop-jumping and want easy exams to pass, just go to one of those 50,000 dollar for-profit degree mills that do clinical rotations in some terrible LTC one violation away from being shut down. Standards protect us. Standards ensure that you have a basic foundation and can meet minimum criteria. Ten years with an LPN license doesn't guarantee that you can pass the RN Nclex.

That being said, it seems so cruel to be one point away and be told to re-take everything. What a nightmare.

[elkpark]

If you want to avoid hoop-jumping and want easy exams to pass, just go to one of those 50,000 dollar for-profit degree mills that do clinical rotations in some terrible LTC one violation away from being shut down. Standards protect us. Standards ensure that you have a basic foundation and can meet minimum criteria. Ten years with an LPN license doesn't guarantee that you can pass the RN Nclex.

That being said, it seems so cruel to be one point away and be told to re-take everything. What a nightmare.

To be fair, the OP failed by one point five years ago. I'm guessing there are not a lot of nursing schools that would let anyone pick up where they left off five years ago.

OP, I'm sorry to hear you had such a bad experience. However, there are people in every kind of nursing program, including people who've made it most of the way through an entire RN program, and fail out by one point or a fraction of a point. I can't imagine how frustrating and heart-breaking that must be. However, I don't think relaxing the standards leading to RN licensure is the answer.

Is your previous school willing to let you return and complete the one course? If that were possible, it might be worth it to figure out a way to do that. Best wishes!