Hello! Anyone on here from the Arizona area? I am not wanting to move lol, I am a happy LVN in Texas, currently working on my RN. I just wondered about Arizona hiring LPN's/LVN's, because I have a coworker who is constantly downing our LVN's saying "OH Arizona doesnt even hire LVN's at all in the hospital, and even at a nursing home they are only considered med aides, they are not recognized as nursing anymore as LVNS are being phased out". I always just kinda ignore her comments, because they way she says it is very degrading. I am happily working on my RN trying to get finished, not because I hate being an LVN but because I do the work of an RN anyway so I might as well get the pay increase. I am proud of my LVN license, I worked hard for it, and I want to go all the way to masters, just for myself. I just hate to hear people sound so condescending towards LVNs, they are nurses too! While I know a lot of really smart RN's, I also know just as many smart LVN's. In Texas, or at least at my hospital, we are trained as LVN 2 level. The ONLY things I cannot do is the initial assessment when a new patient comes to the floor, set up the initial care plan of that patient, and draw blood from a PICC line. Everything else, we were trained to do, and do it everyday. I just wondered about the Arizona thing, specifically the Phoenix area. I would love to be able to go and say "Oh really I saw some job openings for LVN's in Phoenix just the other day!" But I dont want to say that if its not true lol....
