42 yr old male applying for LPn school in a couple months

[TTAmoneypit]

my grades were not the greatest in High School,10 yrs ago I was in the army national guards and was a 91B combat Medic,however after the medic school I did not have any other training and we didn't do anything other than inventory medical supplies,height&weight for soldiers--a bandage here and there.

My question is how difficult would LPn school be for me--I passed the medic stuff with no problems while other people around me were failing and dropped from the course

I'm also wondering if my HS grades (transcripts) will keep me from even being accepted into LPN school

I've been thinking about doing this for many yrs and I'm finally ready to go for it.

thanks for any advice

[mb1949]

Go for it, my high school grades were horrible, just barely passed everything, I went back to school at 45 and just passed my NCLEX RN, I did great in college straight A's ! If you do good on your entrance exam you should be OK, or you could go to a local community college and take some basic classes to show your stuff. I am sure you will do fine, welcome to the nursing boards and let us know how it is going.

[Streamline2010]

I think most of it is scores on the preadmission test, since the official requirements are high school diploma or GED. I didn't take a Work Keys test, so don't know what's on it. On the TEAS, there were many questions about communicable diseases and bacteria and other topics that I had in my college microbiology course. There wasn't much A&P except questions like "how many teeth." LPN programs like bright people and they like adults, so if you have good test scores now, that should offset any of the ancient HS history. I think if you've been out of school a while, the HS transcript is just another tool to make sure there's no identity fraud or anything, since there are criminal and background checks also required.

Brush up on arithmetic skills, if you haven't don that pencil & paper for a while. The GED math review books are perfect fro that. Nursing, LPN or RN, makes a big deal out of doing calculations without a calculator. Coming from engineering, where we switched to calculators and computers decades ago, I was really rusty with the long division, in particular. That stuff just annoys me, lol. Even so, I did quite well on the test without practicing.