Re: Nursing shortage bolony! Let the practicing LPN/LVN's get into school 1st!
No, I agree with you.
But LPNs in the US have a far easier time of the transition to RN than Canadian LPNs. We are admitted to year two of the BScN programme. There is no diploma RN programme up here.
We have RNs returning to work via refresher courses that have fewer skills than LPNs educated in the last decade. Yes, you read that right. Been out of practice for 5 or more years? My province is paying for their refresher course. We have an RN on the refresher on my ward who has been out of practice for 18 years!. She is "amazed and appalled" at what LPNs do.
We have BScNs from the Phillipines with educations that were found lacking (it worked out to the equivalent of a PN educated in my province) and given PN practice permits to work here. Yet, they are permitted to take courses at university to bring them "up to par" with locally educated, Canadian BScNs.
It seems as if my province will do anything but what is logical and cost effective. I work with several PNs who have degrees in other areas from around the world, but when they decided to persue nursing, the two year accelerated BScN wasn't available for them as an option.
Nursing shortage bolony! Let the practicing LPN/LVN's get into school 1st!
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