Need some advice please help

[kimfuturelpn2013]

Good afternoon,

I am currently almost done with the first semester of my lpn schooling. We have started clinicals and will soon be passing out meds. So far my average in my nursing class is an 85. I enjoy nursing school and it's many challenges but everyone is wondering if I will continue on to become an RN. I at first thought that I would like to continue on but now I am doubting if I do or not. I am passing my labs and I've passed all my tests but I still don't think I am smart enough to keep going onto the rn program. I am thankful everyday I have gotten this far but I feel like at any moment I will slip up and made a mistake and be kicked out. Has any other LPN students felt like this? Any advice for me? I would appreciate any feedback ya'll can give thanks.

Kim

[mom2many2012]

Good afternoon,

I am currently almost done with the first semester of my lpn schooling. We have started clinicals and will soon be passing out meds. So far my average in my nursing class is an 85. I enjoy nursing school and it's many challenges but everyone is wondering if I will continue on to become an RN. I at first thought that I would like to continue on but now I am doubting if I do or not. I am passing my labs and I've passed all my tests but I still don't think I am smart enough to keep going onto the rn program. I am thankful everyday I have gotten this far but I feel like at any moment I will slip up and made a mistake and be kicked out. Has any other LPN students felt like this? Any advice for me? I would appreciate any feedback ya'll can give thanks.

Kim

On good days, I want to go all the way for my BSN, on overwhelming days I feel I will be happy just to survive the next 16 months. Just take it day by day and you will graduate before you know it. Then you will know if you want to go for your rn or not. Hang in there!

[perioddrama]

Good advice on taking it day by day - that way, you will not be overhelmed. Set little milestones; it will make the journey less daunting.

And just remember that even seasoned nurses do not know everything. Nursing is a career that requires life-long learning.

Good luck in your studies!

[RN/Mom]

Take it one day at a time and keep trudging along! I went through both LVN school and an LVN-RN program. I was stressed every day during clinicals for both programs -- I would watch other students failing around me left and right over seemingly "small" things, I had clinical instructors who took joy in making us students feel inadequate and/or incompetent, etc., etc. I remember questioning my abilities and hoping/praying before clinical each day that I would not make a mistake, harm a patient, or get kicked out. Regardless of whether your program is LVN or RN, nursing school is stressFUL!

If you are smart enough to get through LPN school, you are smart enough to get through RN school! There's really not much of a difference, in my experience. The LVN-RN program I was in was basically a continuation/expansion on what I learned in LVN school with a greater emphasis on critical thinking and the addition of IV stuff.

[Philly_LPN_Girl, LPN]

If you are smart enough to pass an LPN program then you sure are smart enough to go through an RN program and pass hun. Just take everything little at a time, relax and stay focused but most of all positive. I am currently doing my LPN and I graduate next September and the day that I pass my boards I will be doing my RN online. Good luck :)