LPN student looking at LPN to RN choices

[bashiera]

Hi guys! Long long time lurker, and now I need some help that I couldn't exactly find on the other threads. I'm currently finishing up my third semester of LPN school and I'll graduate this December, I just turned 18 (I came into the program directly out of school after graduating a year early, so I'm a youngin) but I know this is what I want to do with my life. I'm now looking at continuing education options. I definitely want my BSN to continue on to receive perhaps a DNP to become a Nurse Practitioner, and I'm also looking into Ohio States CNM degree as women's health and L&D greatly interest me. The delimma I have is that the school I now attend is accredited for the LPN program fully, but the RN program is not. It was a local tech school bought by Fortis, so they essential became a "new school" and have to become re accredited. I love my instructors now and some of them are associated with the RN program. I have my gripes and moans about certain things (mostly corporate and administration side, like how our clinical hours got messed up this semester) that makes me very wary of returning for my ADN. A local school, Uni of Akron, has their LPN to BSN degree, but that takes up to two and a half years, AFTER prerequisites ! I'm not sure what to do, and I was wondering do any of you have any advice for this LPN-to-be and aspiring RN? There are so many options and I just need a little push from people who are more experienced. I'm strongly looking at my current school's ADN once they get their accreditation, which is supposed to come just in time when I graduate and roll into the Spring class. (I hope this is the right forum )

[LadyinScrubs, ASN, RN]

I would not spend my time or money with a school who says their accreditation will come about the time you graduate. What happens if it does not--where will you be?