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By all means I am not looking down on PN's as a career, I m mainly stating for me if I had a choice I would rather go for the BSN because I want my masters and I did not want to go thru all these different programs to get to my goals. Hey BX_RN2B if you don't mind me asking which PN school did you go to ,I am curious because I 've never heard of one who gave you college pre reqs whilel in the program. I know a lot of people who can benefit from it. The only ones I know of is through the community colleges that give you credit for the lpn towards your RN and I know someone who went thru BCCand it took her 18 mths

You are right about the pre reqs but if this is something you planned for you could have done the pre reqs at any local community college in the summer which is usually two semesters avail (in the summer) so that's four classes already, and most people still work while they are in these programs and have families believe me I know its a struggle my kids did not know me for two years but now I can enjoy them and make more money and I dont have to back thru all of those other steps to have a BSN in my area most LPNs work in nursing homes which I did not want and MOst prestigious hosp will no longer hire ADN nurses anyone who already works for them as ADNs must return for their BSN. by all means everyone should do their research for their area and do whats best for them Good luck

I am so glad it worked out for you that way, but in my area(NYC) even after you take the LPN you must work for a year before you can go to that second phase of the 1+1 program, to return back to school to get an ADN you still have to do those same Pre reqs you were trying to avoid in the first place because the LPN schools do not give you any college credits or the pre reqs required to move up the lattter. some schools to provide some work experience credit or you can take a test to be exempts from certain pre reqs but for the most part everyonetakes them. And I find it very shocking that a university will give you a masters with out a bachelor's first. I am pretty sure the program you are referring to is an BSN-Masters program you are doing both in one which still is longer

I am sorry to cut in but I am just giving my two cents...I had an associate degree before I pursued nursing and I refuse to do an Lpn program because going back to get a BSN would take what seemed like forever to me. I started nursing school after a friend of mine who was in LPN school started working then he went back to become an Asociate RN and started working, by that time I finished my BSN and now he is return again to get His BSN and the mean time I am applying to grad Schools. If I had a BS already there is no way I would go for an LPN vs RN their are plenty of schools that have accelerated programs for people that hold BS/BA degrees in field other then nursing to get a BSN in 15-24mths, then you would not have to worry about going back. that was just my opinion. Good luck everyone with your careers

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I did all if the book questions then the cd. The cd even has a stimulated exam lkike the nclex where it gives u questioins until it decides that u pass or fail and gives u ur results like nclex where u were weak are strong but no scores

I think kaplan is helpful but to me the closest to the actual exam is the questions from exam cram they are short and give u very little info. the kaplan questions are way longer then the actual exam question and they give u much more background info which the nclex doesnt

for me I used saunders for most of the content then I did the chapter at the end of the chapter that I reviewed and I also did the corresponding chapter in the lippincott ninth ed. do as much questions as u can and understand the rationale rather then what is ur score... I also used my ati medsurg and pharm books that I received from school for short s/s and nursing considerations for each disease intaty ...I also did qbank and Qtrainers. I graduated in DEC 08 I started studying on jan 5 and took my test on march 4 got 75 questions and pass u can do it, don't give. Good Luck

congats:yeah::yeah:

I did not use the online info or questions but I did use the books that was given to us at school esp the medsurg and pharm one because they go straight to signs and symptoms and nursing considerations which are important to know for the boards

congratulations:yeah::yeah:

thank you

I will keep u in my prayers and keep telling yourself u will and can do this

Congrats and I wish you all the best:yeah::yeah:

Hey guys I wanted to keep everyone updated on my status ....well I took the boards on wed in the city and found out on fri march 6 that I passed. I got 75 questions with lots of priority, safety and infection control 4 SATA and about 6 meds which I only knew 3 of them. thank you to everyone who had replied to my post and help me along the way