Can they really DO that? A rant!

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Talked to an LPN last nite that used to work at the hospital where I used to work. She said they are now firing all LPNs except a very few that have been there for over 20 years.

She had been there for 5 1/2, was a good nurse. She got un-employment because they screwed up their paperwork, but a lot of them didn't because of some paperwork thing.

Now it just came out in our local paper that the CEO of this hospital is going to receive some award from the govenor of Iowa for 'hospital excellence'!! This about makes me want to :barf01:

Excellence must be the new word for screwing over the older nurses, and now the LPNs that have put in years to MAKE that rotten place, so that they can be replaced with STEPFORD nurses. I am SO glad I don't have to work there any more!!

Specializes in NICU,PICU.

When we went to all RN's in the ICU's and peds areas, they gave them notice and if they were enrolled in an RN program then they were phased in. They are now slowly doing this on our regular floor, outpatient areas also.

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Specializes in Looking for a career in NICU.
I will give the place I work credit. They are going to all rn staff but slowly. They just stopped hiring LPNs. That is the decent way to do it. No broken hearts or lives.

Or even better....if the hospitals were just honest with the LPN's in advance, and gave them an opportunity to get their RN's within so many years....can you imagine how loyal an employee would be where they actually HELPED them keep their jobs?

Too many times, companies want the short-term fix.

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

This is the difference in having Nursing run the show and having "CORPORATE" ***** it to us.

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Specializes in Medical Telemetry, LTC,AlF, Skilled care.

I just love how hosptials gripe about the nursing shortage and then lay off a good chunk of their nursing workforce. There's a couple hospitals here in VA and WV that here years ago that layed off their LPN's because they only wanted an RN and CNA staff, one hospital even decided that they didn't want any CNAs either only RN's so the CNA's got layed off needless to say this backfired on them TREMENDOUSLY and this hosptial hired back all their CNA's and started phasing in LPN's as well and the other hospitals started rehiring LPN's. This seems to happen every so often and you would think the hospitals would eventually learn! :selfbonk:

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Or even better....if the hospitals were just honest with the LPN's in advance, and gave them an opportunity to get their RN's within so many years....can you imagine how loyal an employee would be where they actually HELPED them keep their jobs?

Too many times, companies want the short-term fix.

That's the problem - honesty seems to have gone down the drain!! For the first 12 years I worked at that hospital, I was loyal to them - then they got this new CEO, and I started having bad feelings right away. Now that I've gotten out of there, I feel so much better.

This particular LPN felt the same way - and you can bet that when she gets her RN, and she's going back for it, that she won't go anywhere near that place. It just rankles me that that person is going to get a "Hospital Excellance" award - when that place is rotten at it's core.

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