Help all you nurses out there. I finished LPN school. Now there were alot of people who told me not to go for my LPN but to go right for my RN. Now, i do not wish to start the whole LPN/RN debate here so if you reply will do that please don't reply. I'm looking for some good advice. I decided to go for my LPN first because i stronly believed it would make me a better RN and i liked the idea of having a license to fall back on in case RN school did not work out. Just a little background onmyself. I was a CMA who worked in a doctors office then went to work in a ICU for about three years. The name of the hospital was Hanover Hospital in Hanover, PA. I  am giving the name because i need to vent. I worked there for three years plus did  my clinicals there. After being promised i'd have job when i graduated (while it was always understood it would not be in the ICU) i was told i could go to med-surge and yes i have it in writing in a email from the director of nursing. Well, A couple weeks before graduation i have a meeting with HR and was told "sorry we don't hire LPN's anymore." this despite the fact they were paying for me to go to LPN school and the rule was to have been anyone already working in the hospital who went for their LPN could stay on. Then to insult me further they offer me a job as a CNA with the title of nurse. Needless to say i was forced to leave. From there i went in worked in HELL otherwise know as a nursing home where i had 25 patinets (to many problems there to number) and now i'm in a doctors office where i'm being micromanaged and not even allowed to use the good sense one has as a nurse. I'm beginning to think i need to just chalk it up to a bad career move and go into a new line of work. Anyone else out there ever been in a similar situation. What should i do? I love nursing but, have yet to find the nursing job  that makes me happy and pays the bills.