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Posted over 5 years ago anybody out there an LPN who realizes the job market is limited for exciting, rewarding, stimulating jobs? |
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| Posted over 5 years ago I'm not an LPN... but, I know the challenges you face as an LPN out there. I do many different things in my current life. My overall experience includes many years in healthcare staffing as a nurse recruiter. I can tell you that LPN positions have always been rare.... at least on a travel agency level. There seems to have been more around over the last couple of years. But, obviously, based on your post, you are still having trouble. Can you give more background? Are you stuck in LTC like many LPN's. What are you in now and what is you personal definition of rewarding and exciting? Jim Canto
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| Posted over 5 years ago I am currently in school to become an LPN, but plan to go right into RN if I can get the funding. I am hearing alot that the demand for LPNs is not so great anymore. I hope that I am able to find a rewarding job in this field, but I have increasing concerns the more I hear. ANy advice? |
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| Posted over 5 years ago It really all depends on where you live. Small town or big city. If you are in a large city, you will not find much other than working in a nursing home. You may be lucky enough to find a school nurse opening but most schools have no funds for a nurse. The health department and Red Cross use LPNs. |
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| Posted over 5 years ago agree with cd, out of the hospital there are more opportunites for LPN, the bonus is usually no being on call, less paperwork, more hands on nursing. The downfall is less pay, but I do not think there will be less opportunity. In 1988 I graduated LPN school, went to RN school because they were going to "phase out" LPN's. i just don't see it happening, we are in the begining of a huge nursing shortage. Non-profit and public sector seem to hire more LPN's and the pay not much different from what i have seen. |
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| Posted over 5 years ago LPNs can work in MD offices, home health, and assisted living facilities. Last choice-nursing homes. I think, with the nursing shortage, LPNs wil be in large demand again. Years ago, I too, heard they were phasing out LPNs but I don't see it happening. Around here (Va) school nurses have to be an RN |
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| Posted over 5 years ago I agree with CD. I am an LPN and have worked in a jail for nursing homes and now for mental health but I live in a fairly large city. I also was a unit manager as an LPN and enjoyed that but lots of paperwork and over seeing staffing issues and things. I am currently trying to get my BSN I have 7 months left of school. Sandra RN, BSN. |
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| Posted over 5 years ago THank you everyone for your input. Sandramae, how long does it take to go from LPN to BSN? Is it worth the change? I believe in PA you also have to be an RN to be a school nurse. Thank you again for everyone's input, it truly does help me in my decision making. |
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| Posted over 5 years ago In our neck of the woods. Rumor has it that the health care system by us is transferring many of the RNs out of the offices in into the hospital and replacing them with LPNs and Medical Assistants because there is such a shortage of RNs in the acute care settings. Most of the RNs that are left do mostly phone triage, Prescription call ins And OR scheduling etc. |
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| Posted about 5 years ago kat88 said: Kat '88: I haven't been an LPN for long, but having worked in long-term care for a while (11 years as a CNA), I can tell you that in that setting, we do RN work for LPN pay, we have 3 RNs on staff besides the DON, and so we LPNs end up doing a lot of the paperwork. We may not be "on-call", but we get called in to cover on our days off, even sometimes hours after we have just left our shift. And unfortunately, we don't get to do as much "hands-on nursing" as we would like. And Allison: I love working in long-term care, it's my calling, but I know that finding a job as an LPN is limited. Most LPNs in my area end up in long-term care. Mostly it is not terribly exciting or stimulating, but it can be VERY rewarding. |
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| Posted about 4 years ago small town or big city its hard to find work for LPNs. 6 hospitals with in a 30 minute drive and who knows how many nursing homes in my area and there isnt any openings for LPNs. I passed my NCLEX in early november and got lucky to find a job in december but alot of my class mates who tested in late september or october are just finding jobs or still looking. The Red cross near my home only uses RNs as does the schools. The LTC are over run with applicants trying to get in and even the STNAs who went back to school to get their LPN or RN arent even garenteed positions because of it.
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