usa LPN(license practical nurse/license vocational nurse)looking to work in UK

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I am a american LPN/LVN looking to work in england preferrably but somewhere in Eurpoe overall.Do I have to be a RN to work in England or Europe?Any help would be greatly appreciated

Specializes in medical with other stuff chucked in!.
And the "N" stands for nurse. LPN/LVNs are nurses.

struggling to find the equivalent here in the UK - we only have RN's or healthcare assistants. Sorry i couldn't be much more help :(

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Specializes in ICU,ANTICOAG,ACUTE STROKE,EDU,RESEARCH.
struggling to find the equivalent here in the UK - we only have RN's or healthcare assistants. Sorry i couldn't be much more help :(

I think there are still some enrolled nurses (SENs as opposed to SRNs -registered nurses) around, and that was a 2 yr training course but they stopped training enrolled nurses back in the 80s? and many did 1 yr "conversion courses"back in the late 80s and 90s and became SRNs.

Maybe they have all gone now, as you never see ads for enrolled nurses.

These nurses would have been the closest to US LPNs I think.

Oh - as far as Im aware our healthcare assistants aren't registered with a professional body, and some have no formal training.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
struggling to find the equivalent here in the UK - we only have RN's or healthcare assistants. Sorry i couldn't be much more help :(

Enrolled nurses or Registered nurses level 2 as they are now called are the equivalent to Canadian LPN's similar training of 2 years. Stopped training them around the end of the 1980's. I was one and trained in 86 and did conversion to RN in 97

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Specializes in medical with other stuff chucked in!.

yeah i was thinking of SEN's , but we don't have them any more. I referred to healthcare assistants with NVQ's (as ours on the ward take blood, do simple dressings, monitor observations, do ecg's etc. i know of some HCA's even taking biopsies and other invasive things unser the supervision of doctors). I was wondering if they were the equivalent of LPN/LVN's, as the lady who started this thread is. I wonder if she could apply for band 3 or 4?

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