Bridging from LPN. Do my three years count on a new grad application?
Nia bridging from LPNThe question
Three years as an LPN, finishing the RN bridge now, and every application I open wants me to pick between new graduate and experienced.
I have passed medications, run a hall, and called providers at two in the morning. I have not done it with RN after my name.
So which box, and does anyone actually read the experience if I tick the new grad one? I would rather be placed correctly than flattered.
The conversation
2 replies- Ade in long term careRN, long term care, first year
Tick new graduate and then make the three years impossible to miss in the first two lines of the resume. The box routes you into the cohort that gets orientation, which you want. The lines are what stop anybody treating you like you have never touched a med cart.
What I would not do is undersell the hall. Running one is delegation, triage and prioritisation, and those are exactly the words the posting is looking for.
- Finley pre-nursingSecond career, starting the program in the fall
Coming at this from further back and finding it genuinely useful, because I have twelve years of a different career in the same awkward position.
The framing I have landed on is that the years are not the qualification, they are the reason my judgement is further along than my licence. Curious whether that reads as confident or as excuse making to people who hire.
What would you tell them?
Answer from what you have seen. It posts without your name.
