Pathway Advice please

araew2129, ADN · Feb 5, 2019

Option 3. Otherwise you are just taking a longer and more expensive road. The 5 months are worth the 1 yr you would be saving to ultimately be an RN.

Serhilda, ADN, RN · Feb 6, 2019

I would also choose option 3. You're losing income and taking a longer time to get to your end goal otherwise.

banbhat · Feb 6, 2019

That is my initial instinct. I was somehow thinking that there might be an unforeseen advantage of being an LVN first. Part of this stems from me being in this industry for 30 years and growing to tired of it. It's why I ended up a CNA years ago. I know as a salaried manager I can hold this job until starting school in January 2020 while knocking out the prereqs. The hours aren't my problem. The problem is the lack of any control over my schedule. It is my ideal situation that I would be able to have a schedule that permits me to spend a reasonable amount of time with my family while they're still young. Boys are now 5 and my wife (which if I tell her age I die, ?).

Rionoir, ADN, RN · Feb 6, 2019

In my state you can test for your LPN after completing your first year of an ADN program, and I've read it's like that many other places as well.

Golden_RN, MSN · Feb 7, 2019

On 2/6/2019 at 3:39 AM, Rionoir said:
In my state you can test for your LPN after completing your first year of an ADN program, and I've read it's like that many other places as well.

Yes, and in my state you can test for Certified Nursing Assistant after partial completion of the RN program. It may be after 1st semester but I'm not 100% sure.

banbhat · Feb 7, 2019

That's awesome. I did speak to the nursing school and you can in fact test out as a CNA after the first semester of the ADN program and after the first two semesters and a summer session, can take the NCLEX-PN. I wish I didn't have to wait until January 2020 but that's life. I will be 44 when I start school. I'm here in Texas.