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That's awesome! Good luck with the program!

Be careful with the excelsior program. I'm sure you've checked it out with your nursing board. In Alabama where I am, taking the excelsior program is fine. going through the preceptorship is fine as well, but when it comes to sitting for boards, Alabama state board of nursing states that the excelsior program doesn't not give enough clinical hours for one to sit for RN boards. You would have to go to Georgia or New York to sit for boards. How horrible to pay that money, spend all that time working towards a goal, only to find out that you couldn't even sit for boards in your home state!!!

I, too am going the bridge route at Herzing Univesity. There are several Herzing campuses across the country that offer the nursing LPN to RN bridge. I worked 17 years as an LPN simply because I didn't want to go to school for 2 years to become an RN. The bridge program is expensive, but worth it. If you have Psychology, Speech, A&P, and Micro, then all you will have left are the nursing courses. I didn't qualify for grants but I did get federal aid.