Taking my LPN next month. . and graduating with RN in Dec!!!

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Hello!

I'm graduating with my RN in December and I'm taking my LPN next month. I'm currently a waitress and I bring home about 500-800/week. I would like experience in the field before becoming an RN. But since my family can't live on an CNA salary, I decided to go for my LPN and work as an LPN during my last semester if nursing school.

Do you think I'm making the right decision and do you think I'll be able to find a job? And how soon after I take the exam can I start applying for work?

Thanks!

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This is confusing. So youre graduating with your rn in dec but starting lpn next month?????? :/

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So you're taking the NCLEX-PN in August? What state do you live in? How did you get authorization to test if you haven't graduated from an LVN program?

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Hello!

I'm graduating with my RN in December and I'm taking my LPN next month. I'm currently a waitress and I bring home about 500-800/week. I would like experience in the field before becoming an RN. But since my family can't live on an CNA salary, I decided to go for my LPN and work as an LPN during my last semester if nursing school.

Do you think I'm making the right decision and do you think I'll be able to find a job? And how soon after I take the exam can I start applying for work?

Thanks!

Putting alot of questions aside for the moment, NO, I do NOT think this is a wise move at all. Completely off-reality, actually. Why? Because it costs $$ to sit for the NCLEX-PN, just as it will for NCLEX-RN. A few hundred bucks, if memory serves correctly. After spending that few hundred bucks, you will need to FIND employment, and that's not easy nowadays. And after you manage to land an LPN job, you're going to leave in a few months to seek an RN job? Would you tell your prospective LPN employer that you plan to be there just a few months? And if not....how might such a short-term employment look to a prospective RN employer?

No, I don't think this is a wise move. And getting back to those questions I put aside, how are you meeting eligibility requirements to sit for PN exam?

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I know a few states will let you sit for the LPN boards after getting through so much of the RN program. Sounds like a lot of work for such a short period of time, but good luck either way..

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I know a few states will let you sit for the LPN boards after getting through so much of the RN program. Sounds like a lot of work for such a short period of time, but good luck either way..

Yeah, mine is one of them, BUT you have to get a fair amount of authorizing paperwork submitted and accepted (after three complete semesters from a 4 semester program) and that's probably why no one really does it.

OP, what's up?

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most of the time if you're an LPN, you have to go through an RN bridge program that would allow you to take NCLEX-RN before you become a registered nurse

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most of the time if you're an LPN, you have to go through an RN bridge program that would allow you to take NCLEX-RN before you become a registered nurse

That's not what OP is describing. She's in an RN program, set to graduate one semester after she plans to take the PN exam. Although she hasn't come back to answer questions...

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Hello!

I'm graduating with my RN in December and I'm taking my LPN next month. I'm currently a waitress and I bring home about 500-800/week. I would like experience in the field before becoming an RN. But since my family can't live on an CNA salary, I decided to go for my LPN and work as an LPN during my last semester if nursing school.

Do you think I'm making the right decision and do you think I'll be able to find a job? And how soon after I take the exam can I start applying for work?

Thanks!

I'm also a little confused about taking 'LPN next month" and graduating with 'RN' in December. unless as the others have said, the OP is in a State that allows RN program students to take the NCLEX-PN after a certain amount of the RN program classes are taken and passed.

But, onto the questions.

Do I think you be able to find a job...possibly, but depending on where you live, newly licensed RN's and LPN's are having a hard time finding a job. And as an LPN who went onto RN, I can tell you this, I would never, ever consider trying to be a newly licensed LPN working on my own as a new nurse on top of the stress and time needed in order to continue on during the RN program. Many newly licensed nurses are under lot of stress during their first few months as a nurse. I can't imagine the stress of school being added to by the stress of a new job, new position and new responsiblities. As well, for me the last 2 classes of the last semester were the most stressful of all.

How soon can you get a job after you take the exam...assuming you pass...you can start working as soon as your State BON verifies the test result and gives you a license number.

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since when did CNA make less than waitresses???

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