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Hi ninjago. Thanks for your comment. I graduated in 1998. I, too, am considering taking LPN also for clinical experience but for financial reasons as well. I am currently unemployed (lost my job) & may be approved for unemployment grant. So I would like to take advantage of that while receiving unemployment benefits. What do you think of enrolling for LPN and Excelsior ADN at the same time? I want to gain the clinical experience in US although I had 4 years of clinical experience beyond training as MD in my home country. I thought a local experience, and a nursing experience would be better. Also, I thought of this as I said because I may be able to receive a grant. However, the money is so small that it would not suffice for an ADN degree, also an ADN degree in community college would take me longer to be an RN. COnsidering that I can take exams in Excelsior in my own pace, do you think getting enrolled in both at the same time would be practical? If you are wondering why I want to enroll in both at the same time, it is because I learned that starting Oct. 1, 2012, there would only be limited credits that may be transferred to Excelsior depending on the date the previous subjects were taken. Thanks!

Thanks everybody who responded to my question. All have been very helpful & informative. I will be taking your advices. Thanks for clarifying things to me. I aapreciate your help.

I need some advise on what subjects I can enroll in on an LPN or ADN program that could directly be transferrable to RN. I already have a previous Bachelors Degree in another healthcare course and have the opportunity to enroll in some credits for free, so I am thinking of taking non matriculated courses for now & work towards RN later. However, I would like to find out which subjects are advisable to take that I do not have to add more credits later for RN. I already had A&P, & Microbiology, and other general requirements. Thanks in advance for you r responses.

Hi, thanks for your response. Did you mean to say that you are also a foreign trained MD who took the LPN route? I, too, could not use any of the subjects I took in medicine as prerequisites because they were more than 8 years old. Since I will be receiving grant money, would you advise that I take Anatomy & Physiology, for example, I mean, just to make use of the grant money and save some money instead of getting these from Excelsior? Thanks.

Hi Reigen. Thanks for your reply. I do appreciate your taking time to respond. As I have mentioned, I am married to my husband who is a US citizen. I moved to the US to be with him and start a family with him. We now have a two year old child. We decided to stay here in the US because although I was a physician in my home country & was making a decent amount of money already before I left, my husband would not be able to find a job there. I cannot be the sole bread winner for the family as he is supporting two children from his previous relationship. If it were only him and me, I would have done so & continue my profession. I have considered, and re-considered, ang thought a million times about taking the USMLE but it is just not practical for me to do that at this point in time. I am also not very young anymore and we are also not very mobile in case I get matched in a hospital that is not close to home.

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Hi. I am a foreign trained physician who got married to my husband who is a US citizen. I came to the US to start a family with him. I am now also a US citizen and we have 3 kids. I used to have a job but was displaced from my position being that I am not an RN. I am now receiving unemployment benefits & have been approved to receive a training grant which is not that much. I was planning initially to take LPN so I could finish in 1 yr, have a job & send myself to school for BSN. However, since the grant money is small, I would have to add about $10,000 to take the program. It is big because when I lost my job, we moved to another county that was closer to my husband's work so I am not eligible for in county tuition fee. I recently heard about Excelsior, I am thinking that this may be the shortest route for me. However, if I do the Excelsior route, it won't be approved for the money grant & I would not receive unemployment benefits as well. So, I am thinking of enrolling in a community college for some subjects & take the rest of exams with Excelsior at the same time. Does anybody know if this is possible? I did not see the Multi Source option under Nursing on Excelsior. Any advise for me at all would be greatly appreciated.

I hope you'd be able to advise me on this. I am a foreign-trained doctor who had been displaced in my job (replaced by an RN) & receiving unemployment benefits. I just learned that I had been approved to receive a small amount of money fromthe Dept. of Labor for training purposes. I initially planned to enroll for an LPN program & continue to become an RN later. I will be adding 16K to the amount I'll receive to take the LPN course. Now, I recently learned about Excelsior. My questions: 1. Can anybody advise me if the Excelsior route to become an RN would be more practical in my case? 2. Which route would be less costly? 3. Do you have any idea if there are any foreign doctors who took the Excelsior route to be an RN & got hired? BTW, I have 4 years of clinical experience before I came here to the US to start a family. My husband is a US citizen, and I am now, too. Thanks for your help in advance.