LPN or RN?

So......I am pro LPN first. It is what I am doing and i will be finishing my LPN in 2 months and sitting for NCLEX.My CC has a two semester LPN program and they do advance placement into third block to finish with ADN ( associates in nursing) in block four.I am taking the LPN route to...avoid the 18 waitlist for RN. Financially i pay out of pocket...and its easier this way. I will take my LPN NCLEX in May, and go to third block in August. Hopefully i will work as an LPN while i finish RN. When i graduate RN i will NOT be considered a new grad but rather an experienced nurse.If God forbid anything happens during 3/4 block and i fail or cant continue....i dont have to start at block one ever again. I will always start block 3.At the VERY least you get experience.

O and I am a single mom, early 20's, working two jobs and taking other classes on top of my nursing with no help from family. Its doable!

I decided to do the LPN to RN route due to the insanely huge list of people trying to get into the community colleges nursing programs. I was in school, graduated, licensed and working as an LPN before any of the people I was in the CC with even got into the nursing programs.

That being said, I don't know about how your State runs their LPN to RN programs but here is how mine worked. There are only a handful of schools that have the bridge program (the State Community Colleges and two private not-for-profit colleges). Once you are admitted into the LPN to RN program, you take an online class thru the State and a class through your school. From there you then enter the 2nd year nursing classes of the ADN program. Don't think having your LPN will let you escape the dreaded 'pre-reqs'. Not at all. We still had to complete all the non-nursing classes for the ADN program. So those A&P's, chem, sociology, psych, Algebra etc..ALL had to be done. My school required the 1st year of the non-nursing classes be completed before you could start the RN classes. The 2nd year of the non-nursing classes could be done before or during the RN classes. I chose to do them all before the RN classes. Luckily I had many classes I could use to transfer and I didn't have to start from the beginning.

So......I am pro LPN first. It is what I am doing and i will be finishing my LPN in 2 months and sitting for NCLEX.My CC has a two semester LPN program and they do advance placement into third block to finish with ADN ( associates in nursing) in block four.I am taking the LPN route to...avoid the 18 waitlist for RN. Financially i pay out of pocket...and its easier this way. I will take my LPN NCLEX in May, and go to third block in August. Hopefully i will work as an LPN while i finish RN. When i graduate RN i will NOT be considered a new grad but rather an experienced nurse.If God forbid anything happens during 3/4 block and i fail or cant continue....i dont have to start at block one ever again. I will always start block 3.At the VERY least you get experience.

Not always the case. You are STILL considered a new graduate RN but with LPN experience. I speak from experience. I am still looked upon as a new grad even with 5 yrs LPN exp. You will be considered an experienced LPN but a newly graduated RN, because, that's what you are/will be...a new grad RN.

Not always the case. You are STILL considered a new graduate RN but with LPN experience. I speak from experience. I am still looked upon as a new grad even with 5 yrs LPN exp. You will be considered an experienced LPN but a newly graduated RN, because, that's what you are/will be...a new grad RN.

So ture pixie...im looked at the same way. But with 8yrs LPN experience. So i am constantly referred to as a "new grad with LPN experience" but treated as a "new grad RN" because most people dont know how extensive my LPN experience is...and when they find out...im still treated as a "new grad RN". Lol...it doesnt bother me though. Just a matter of my preceptor rehashing things again. It doesnt hurt to hear stuff or do stuff agaon no matter how many times i done it before.