Are LPN's going to be phased back into the hospital settings?

[mfigueroa22]

My hospital in Winston Salem, NC have started to hire LPN's again on a couple of floors after phasing all of them out a few years ago. They are also doing a trial run on a unit that has 1 RN, 1 LPN, and 2 CNA's for 12 patients. When other floors currently have 2 RN's and 2 CNA's. It makes since in a lot of ways and it will also be great for me as I will finish my LPN soon. Just want your thoughts and story's in your area of the current situation for LPNs making their way bake into the hospital. Please state the area you work in. Thanks.

[StudentAxel]

I hope they do

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

In my area, there is maybe one-two hospitals that may hire LPNs, but the majority hire RNs and prefer RNs due to the saturation of nursing programs in the area.

I saw the writing on the wall many years ago when one of those hospitals I worked for stated they were not hiring LPNs; I went on to get experience as a LPN and went back to school and completed my BSN-I could've got my ADN, but I choose wisely based on a program's flexibility while I worked, and the BSN program gave that to me-and ended up putting myself in a position to work and enjoy a specialty that I enjoy.

[downsouthlaff, LPN]

I too am an LPN with no desire to work in the hospital setting. I enjoy being the Charge Nurse/Floor Nurse in the LTC environment. But I have noticed that hospitals have been hiring more and more LPNs lately. They never stopped hiring LPNs for med surg nurse positions around here at hospitals. But I see ads for LPNs in ICUs , ERs, Surgery and even L&D/OB Wards. But as I stated prior not for me. A good friend of mine works at our Home town Hospital as a Med Surg RN and her pay is $18.50 per hour. As an LPN Floor Nurse at a rural nursing home in a more distant town I'm making $18.00. Almost as much has her while LPNs at the hospital she works at are making between $12 and $13.50 hourly ! Major no go for me for back breaking med surg nursing.

[HazelLPN, LPN]

Here in Bellingham WA there is only 1 hospital and they used to have LPN's but got rid of them a few years ago. Of course they are wanting BSN preferred and with experience. Something is going to have to change, there is a shortage of nurses, and they are burning out the ones they do have, they need to allow lesser educated nurses back into hospitals.....the BSN's can be in charge and be assigned to more complicated cases, but there is no reason an ADN or LPN cannot care for the rest.

A BSN in charge of the most complicated cases? Only if that BSN educated nurse is truly the best fit for that patient. Simply having a BSN does not make one a good fit for "complicated cases". It depends on the person, not the letters behind their name.

[LPN0430]

Wow.. In the state I reside in, you are hard pressed to find any hospital hiring LPNs:(