LPN to RN 1+1 program doesn't exist for experienced LPN's

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All I can say is, if you are an LPN/LVN for more than 5 years, then there is no such thing as an LPN-RN one year bridge program, and I wish the programs would just say that up front when they are advertising and talking about their programs. "Oh you get credit for your work history as an LPN"..ha..ha ha..ha ha ha...want some mayo with that bologna?!:chuckle

I've been an LPN for 26 years and all I've gotten so far with the programs is spending all year including summers doing prereqs :typing for the courses that are "outdated because they are more than 5 years old" or b/c this program requires, nutrition, but this one doesn't..this one requires..microbiology within the last 5 years...but this one will take it, but you have to take religion instead, this one requires public speaking but this one doesn't...good grief..what a ruckus! Oh and by the way..we give credit to the LPN's that recently graduated from our PN program, graduates from other PN programs will be considered on an individual basis, but the PN's from our program are going to get extra admission points.:down:

I know it's my own fault for not just going straight through to RN as soon as I got done with LPN or started an RN program to begin with...but I feel like there is some kind of resentment for trying to go back later to obtain it. oh and... you can't take this course until you take that course and you can't take that course until you take this other course..they must go in a sequence you know....sooooo frustrating!!:banghead: OK, thanks for letting me gripe...and I'll just keep plugging away. Best of Luck to every "experienced LPN beyond the 5 year mark" and to all LPN's period!!

Specializes in home health, LTC, assisted living.
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*** Sure there is. In Wisconsin. The technical college system is a 1 + 1 system and the only thing you need for advanced standing into the second year of the ADN program is an active WI LPN license. I started the program in August of 2005 after having been an LPN for 11 years and graduated in May of 2006. I didn't even go to nursing school to be an LPN (challenged the boards in Ca based on being a medic in the army). No pre-reqs, only co-reqs. Here is the web site of the school I went to:

www.swtc.edu

No waiting list for LPN to RN when I did it. They also have a 2 year part time evening and weekend LPN to RN program for those who must work full time while in school.

:eek: yowsa! You didn't have an LPN diploma?

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Did you graduate from Excelsior college?

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Specializes in Trauma, ER, Cardiology & Spinal Rehab.

I could not agree more with the original poster! I graduated from LPN school in 2005 and came across this "AMAZING" program that would be "2 years, one night a week - and you'll be an RN, BSN" - that 2 years & one night a week turned into 3 1/2 years and 2 days a week, not to mention the hundreds of hours to be done "on my own time" - all while working 40 hrs/week - because this program was "made for working LPNs" - it's a JOKE! I graduate in April - thank God, but it has been a REAL disaster!

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
:eek: yowsa! You didn't have an LPN diploma?

*** No I didn't. Ca allows military corpsmen to challenge their LPN boards. I spent a total of two, 4 month semesters in nursing school and CLEPed into an RN licence and an ADN,

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:angryfire wanna hear another kicker:madface:

I was an LPN for 28 years and after raising my children decided to go back for my RN...graduated in 2006!!!:yeah:passed my NCLEX 1st try...hears the kicker part..

Your pay....is AS A NEW RN GRADUATE....your LPN experience does not count. talk abt unfairness...sooo your employer gets an RN with all that experience as an LPN but only pays you as a brand new RN :madface:...Don't get me wrong , I have no regrets for doing it, but where is the fairness......

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I must say I'm in the same boat that you're in Roozeyk. I'm frustrated as well. I'm in Atlanta and I have been trying to get finished w/ my pre reqs for 2 years. It's sooooo frustrating. I found out that for the nursing program I'm entering I could have been taking all of my classes from a technical school instead of a semester college a long time ago, and I would have been finished. So I applied to the school and I'm waiting on a response. Meanwhile they opened registration for the science classes; and guess what??? There are no more seats available for any A&P1 or 2 classes. I'm sooo hurt I could cry. With me I'm on a time constraint so that I would be finished w/ all science classes by next Jan. so that everything would be completed for my nursing school application, but the way things are looking I don't know if it's possible. I have tried everything to get these classes out of the way (they are all I need before I'm done) and for some reason I always get stopped when it's time to start one of them. My first instinct was to just give up because this is the 3rd time I've tried to get into a science class. I have been a LPN for 11 years and I could just kick myself for not going straight through. But all that I'm going through I should have just gone to a 4 year program at least I would've finish w/ a BSN. I've been in school for 2 yrs trying to finish pre req's only because of that darn Algebra. I tested on Compass and was placed in Math 097, then I took 098 (twice), then compass again (I passed it!!) then Alg 1- (I passed). It took so long because me and math don't get along and I could only take 1 other class w/ math just so I could focus on passing the compass a 2nd time. So here I am 2 years later only needing science classes. A&P1 and 2 and Micro. Those will take another year and then the nursing program is a year. Total: 4 years + and I will have a ASN. I should have done a 4 year program for all the trouble I've been through. WHEW!!! It can be sooo hard at times.

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Specializes in LTC.

Hi, I'm proud to be an LPN but I still want the RN. How's it going with EC? I really don't want to sit in a classroom anymore but I'm also terrified of the CNEP. Let me know your thoughts, thanks.

I'm also very frustrated with this situation. My local CC suspended their bridge program. They treat any person with a clue, LPNs, EMTs, Paramedics, Multi-Techs, terribly. They won't negotiate anything. They charge $2600/semester. The nurses that graduated in the last few years with their ADNs may lose them because there is a question as to whether or not the program meets the requirements for ADN. These nurses may be converted to Diploma nurses. I attended but finally got tired of their antics and went over to Ecelsior and what a difference. If you can do EC, do it.

2. Find out what they will let you CLEP and get on it. I did 3 different English as well as Sociology. I'm working on studying for a Humanities CLEP now toward my BSN.

3. Take as many summer classes as you possibly can do well in. They are usually very short, challenging but often 1/2 the time. Online classes are awesome time savers also.]

I agree with Jules. I took lots of summer classes and most were online. I got credit for these classes from EC and they will count towards my BSN. Micro in the summer was fast paced but not terribly hard.

As for CLEP, I checked it out and intend to take the Humanites CLEP also. Most colleges accept CLEP. I figure I'll CLEP until I can CLEP no more.

Good luck. I feel your pain.

I truly like being an LPN and refuse to apologize to anybody for it.

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Specializes in Hospice, ER.

EC is going great. Took a lot of stress off of me. I'll worry about the CPNE when the time comes. I print out articles pertaining to the CPNE and keep them in a 3-ring binder. Otherwise, I have no complaints.

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:angryfire wanna hear another kicker:madface:

I was an LPN for 28 years and after raising my children decided to go back for my RN...graduated in 2006!!!:yeah:passed my NCLEX 1st try...hears the kicker part..

Your pay....is AS A NEW RN GRADUATE....your LPN experience does not count. talk abt unfairness...sooo your employer gets an RN with all that experience as an LPN but only pays you as a brand new RN :madface:...Don't get me wrong , I have no regrets for doing it, but where is the fairness......

True story!!! I had 16 years in as an LPN and when I took my first RN position I took a pay CUT!!! The real kicker was that since I had worked at that facility as an LPN my "preceptor" (and I do use that word VERY loosely) said to me, as we were leaving the report room my first day as a GN "So, you have worked here before, I'll show you how to be charge". So much for getting any orientation to a unit I hadn't been on in over 5 years!!

Wyoming has CC's that do offer the bridge program and you can also go from LPN to BSN at University of Wyoming, for all that's curious.

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Specializes in LTC, Rehab, Skilled Nursing, Management.
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*** Sure there is. In Wisconsin. The technical college system is a 1 + 1 system and the only thing you need for advanced standing into the second year of the ADN program is an active WI LPN license. I started the program in August of 2005 after having been an LPN for 11 years and graduated in May of 2006. I didn't even go to nursing school to be an LPN (challenged the boards in Ca based on being a medic in the army). No pre-reqs, only co-reqs. Here is the web site of the school I went to:

www.swtc.edu

No waiting list for LPN to RN when I did it. They also have a 2 year part time evening and weekend LPN to RN program for those who must work full time while in school.

I'm so jealous! I was also an Army medic who crossed trained while I was in to LPN (91W). None of my training was considered in Kansas so I had to go through LPN school and am now on my route for LPN-RN. I'm actually very pleased that some states will take into consideration the knowledge and training we received in the military! Congrats! Wish there was some national board to decide all this bologna! I think it's ridiculous that your state will okay the training we both had but my state won't. That's plain ridiculous!

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Specializes in Camp/LTC/School/Hospital.

I was a LPN with a lot of experience for 13 years and I am going through the same thing. I just have to "Fake it to make it" and put up with all of the stuff they are putting me through. I will be done this RN program in December Thank God1

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Is there anyway you can speak with the head for the nursing program and see if your science classes can be waived since you have work experience as an LPN.

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