I need to interview a Registered Practical Nurse

in our state we are called RNs (Registered Professional Nurses)
sorry i am a new grad as of MAY

RN=Registered Nurse
RPN =Registered Practical Nurse

We are both goverened under the College of Nurses of Ontario

Hello there,
Well since I do not voice it often I will give you a short reply. I have been a R.PN for the past eleven years and have worked fulltime, part-time and casual. I have worked acute care , longterm care and most things in between. I have taken every up grade possible as a R.p.n ie, added skills palliative care , ect. I have always given very good care to the patients in my charge.
However if I had it to do all over again, I would never become a R.P.N. Why you ask...... under valued ! I do not believe we are regarded as nurses, by both nursing professionals or the general public. Our wage scale bites, and we are always threatened with lay off, or discontinueing the need for R.P.N's in hospital and replacing us with nursing aides. I wish some one had given me a speech like this eleven years ago.
I know this sounds very negative ,and I would love for it to be the contrary,however I dont see any changes in the near future.
It would seem to me, that they the college has created us and now no one wants to utilize us, a little more respect for the profession would be nice.along with a increase in pay!.

WELL SAID!!!!!!! an RN gets double pay to do the same thing I do, even taken course that an RN needs as an added skill.

pay still the same but I would still be an RPN I have been told numourous times how a pt. prefers and RPN .