Failed Nursing. LPN or keep trying to get back into RN?

U.S.A. New York

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hello,

i failed nursing in community college. as it is well known no other community college will take me back and private schools are not so egger either, since my gpa dropped. i posted a thread about my situation and got great advice. thank you. now i have two questions. should i go for lpn and then bridge it to rn? and if i will do the bridge, are the schools still going to care that i failed nursing before? or should i go for phlebotomy, in order to work in the medical field and stay in my college raising my gpa and trying to readmit to rn? i am afraid that there is no guarantee and a lot of time wasted if i will stay in college and every semester trying to readmit. also there is not much i can take towards my major since all my pre req are done. i know it is based on my choice and preference. but i hit the bottom and do not know where to even go from here on. thank you for any advice.

my previous post regarding me failing nursing and my situation. >

https://allnurses.com/ny-nursing-programs/failed-nursing-first-482172.html

Specializes in Pediatrics.
Despite my previous advice on this subject, one really is playing with fire by being less than honest when applying to any place of higher education.

The world is very small now thanks to the Internet, and there are other ways besides transcripts to find out where or if someone attended college or whatever before.

Financial aid is the first thought that comes to mind. One only gets a certain amount of NYS and Pell aid. If one applies as a rank freshman, and applies for aid, any previous awards will be subtracted, and you get what is left of your balance. Do not know if either the state or federal government gives full printouts to financial aid offices including previous awards, and the schools it went to, but surely someone might wonder why a new freshman cannot get full awards if entitled.

Finally these days you really don't want to give anyone, be it an employer or school a vaild reason to discharge you for cause. Lying on an application can be one of those reasons, and it would really be horrible say three-quarters through a program, where one is doing very well to be called out and removed for not disclosing information as requested/required.

I agree with DoGood on this one. Sure, you can take the chance, but you never know who you'll cross paths with. Students, as well as faculty, change schools. A couple of my colleagues have seen people from their old schools (who have failed out) apply and get admitted to our school. One that I recall, ended up failing out of our program (that makes 2 for her).

Depending on the school and their policies, any falsification of inromation on the application (i.e., withholding previous studies) can invalidate your application.

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dont waste your time w lpn, go staright into rn, otherwise you will be wasting alot of time. you will have so many more opportunities w rn ! there are alot of great programs

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Specializes in critical and acute care.

My suggestion would be to start over. I don't know what LPN programs wouldn't "care as much" about academics. The LPN school I graduated from required 4 semesters at 21 units a semester (9 of those were for clinicals) and a minimum passing grade of 80% in all areas and on all exams. We graduated with an associate of science in nursing. The days of attaining an LVN/PN after one or two semesters are gone forever. The LPN INCLEX is also no longer a walk in the park - if it ever was. So do yourself a favor and get your priorities straight, then do the absolute best you can do. Your future patients deserve only the best.

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if you do decide to go for lpn, and i am not saying you should, then you should aslo look into the lpn to bsn program for later instead of lpn to rn to bsn.

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get your lpn. do a bridge course or go online for your rn. thats what im doing :) good luck!

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I'm in the same boat. I decided to do the RN online too.

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