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Need advice quickly

I have been accepted to an LVN program and an ADN program. An LVN friend said that it's better to go into the LVN first, work for a few years and then go to ADN. The ADN training doesn't give enough clinical time. It made a lot of sense when she was telling me, but now I have the opportunity to go to the ADN program and I don't want to miss the boat. HELP!!

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Honestly I would do the ADN program. If your final goal is RN it puts you at that goal. It will also be less time and less money on your part.

It seems to me that your "friend" is trying to hold you back.

I have been accepted to an LVN program and an ADN program. An LVN friend said that it's better to go into the LVN first, work for a few years and then go to ADN. The ADN training doesn't give enough clinical time. It made a lot of sense when she was telling me, but now I have the opportunity to go to the ADN program and I don't want to miss the boat. HELP!!

What do you most want to do? Could you opt to take your LPN boards during the ADN program as I did?

ADN pays better. ADN is closer to BSN. ADN has more job opportunities.

Someone who is an LPN/LVN will have to help me see the advantages of being an LPN/LVN other than the experience that you gain through working as an LPN/LVN.

LVN focuses on the technical skill part of nursing. The ADN gives you more all around. So what if the clinical aspect is longer? Everything comes with practice and if you practice at home and in campus lab, the amount of clinical time prior to graduation will not matter so much.

It really really depends on what you want to do most.

After your first year you can take the LPN boards anyway and work as an LPN while finishing out your ADN. Don't pass this opportunity up! Take the ADN!

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Thanks for the advice. I wanted to go to the ADN, but have been trying for acceptance for three years so I applied to LVN. What I want the most is to be a really good nurse. ADN was my first choice, I didn't want to take the extra step of LVN. But if going there first will make me a better nurse I'll go there. I guess I'm just nervous about making the wrong decision. I thought about nursing for years before I got up the nerve to start taking the steps.

Y'all are great.

i have been accepted to an lvn program and an adn program. an lvn friend said that it's better to go into the lvn first, work for a few years and then go to adn. the adn training doesn't give enough clinical time. it made a lot of sense when she was telling me, but now i have the opportunity to go to the adn program and i don't want to miss the boat. help!!

if it were me i wouldn't hesitate to go in the adn. there are several reasons to go adn that will be a huge advantage to you, if you got accepted girl go for it now while the opportunity is in front of you!!! run with it

Definitely take the ADN.

It seems to me that your "friend" is trying to hold you back.

I second that motion. He or she is not giving you good advice. Are they even a nurse? I would go for the ADN program and worry about experience later(like all the other nurses). Good luck and good for you questioning this advice.

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Go for the ADN, why wait? I really don't think it will make you a "better" nurse to do LVN first. I know some really excellent LPNs that I wouldn't hestitate to put myself into their hands (in fact, I have done so). But the quality of your nursing is what you put into it, and if you take advantage of all the clinical time you can get with the ADN, you'll do just fine.

I went straight for my BSN a couple of centuries ago, and I can make a bed, give a bath, hold a hand, etc. just fine, as well as get stuck with admin and committees :roll :clown: :roll

Again, the quality of your nursing comes from you, not the letters after your name. :chair:

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Think about this. . .how would an LVN know that ADN training doesn't give you enough clinical time and that it's better to be an LVN first? From what experience is she basing her advice on? Huh? She's never been an RN to be able to make a comparison between the experience of the two kinds of training! I get so frustrated with LVNs who think they know what it entails to be an RN when they've never walked in those shoes, or ADNs who are experts about how a BSN isn't much different from ADN training when they've never been there either. Sheesh!

The logical part of your brain is tugging at you. Get your RN and forget about LVN school. I am sure your friend means well, but she is giving you advice based on rumors that have been repeated for years throughout the nursing community that are not true. Read the sign I have on my signature. Someone will take the opportunity you pass up. Realistically, it will take you about a year to get an LVN and another couple of years or so to get the RN. Getting the LVN along the way will be wasted time (as in days of the calendar) and will only make the journey to getting the RN longer.

I have been accepted to an LVN program and an ADN program. An LVN friend said that it's better to go into the LVN first, work for a few years and then go to ADN. The ADN training doesn't give enough clinical time. It made a lot of sense when she was telling me, but now I have the opportunity to go to the ADN program and I don't want to miss the boat. HELP!!

Sorry, but I don't think that your friend is giving you good advice. If you have the opportunity I would go for the ADN. You will have MUCH more open to you when you graduate.

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life is a series of lessons learned. educational opportunities broaden ourselves to large amount of information and many lesssons --both possitive and negative. if you have the opportunity to attend adn program minimum 2 years length over an lpn program averaging 12-15 months, which one will add the most to life lessons??

p.s.: not all states allow adn students who only complete first year to take lpn exam and be licensed as such. pa is one state

an applicant must have completed an approved registered nursing program to be eligible for registered nurse licensure/temporary practice permit an approved practical nursing program to be eligible for practical nurse licensure. completing part or all of a registered nursing program does not meet requirements to be licensed as a practical nurse in pennsylvania. provide the entire correct name of the school of nursing completed so that official documents can be matched. the term "school of nursing" refers to the name of the institution, school, college or university where you completed the education which qualified you for your original nursing license.

http://www.dos.state.pa.us/bpoa/lib/bpoa/20/nurs_board/application_for_licensure_by_endorsement0304.pdf

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