LPN or RN

[woodyma]

dec 02, 2009 01:54 am

lpn or rn degree

by woodyma

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years exp: 6

nursing specialty: cardiologist, and med surg

join date: nov 2009

posts: 3

i am stuck. after high school i want to a nursing program got accepted, but trying to graduate for the pass seven years, they let me go saying that i need to go see a pschyatrist. i now i am not crazy. my friends persuede ( took a long persueding) me to go and see what she has to say. from my answers to her questions she diagnose me with depression, i had this for a long time, since i was a child, but did not know. few more years went by was on and off depression meds, and seeing a psychiatrist, and going to school and working as a cna at nursing homes, to hospitals still could not get that rn degree.

my mother decided she wanted to move down south that was her dream after her retirement. we moved to me this would me a new start. i decided, and push myself to stay on the antidepression meds, irealize that i need it, it helps. my mother would want me to go for the lpn program, because i have been trying to get the rn degree. i look into it the lpn programs will not fit into my schedule, because i need to work, maybe not full time but part time. i am ready to go to school for the rn degree, but do not want to upset my mother, and do not want to upset myself if i do not make it again. what would u do, if you where in this situation?

[K nurse-one-day]

I don't mean to sound blunt but you have to do what you want to do, and not worry about what anyone else thinks. I have heard more that once that LPN school can be just as hard or sometimes harder than RN school b/c it is so much info crammed into such a short time. Also, LPN school is usually a year or so long and RN school is about 18 months (sometimes less, mine is 16 months) so if you are going to go for a year, you may as well go an extra few months and get your RN.What exactly is it that is keeping you from getting your degree? Are you failing out? Are you dropping out? Have you been trying to get your degree at the same school for 7 years because I believe that, in most schools, you can only take a course 2x and after that they won't let you come back to the program. I sorry but I'm a little confused by your question