Other Options For LPN's

I happen to work in a nursing home and love it. The pace is perfect and the stress level is quite low.

Other popular options for LPNs include rehabilitation, home health, hospice, outpatient clinics, subacute, doctors' offices, psychiatric nursing, correctional (jail) nursing, developmental disabilities nursing, and med-surg nursing. Actually, home health is the wave of the future for LPNs.

I work as an Independent Contractor doing home care / private duty. I on contract with a couple of state agencies, make good money, do my own schedule and am my own boss. I LOVE IT. I use to do the same work/same patients through a home health agency but have found that I can do as an independent.

Happy,
Do you get health ins benefits working as a independant contractor?
Thanks,
-Sara

I work in an OR, PRN pre-op and PRN ER.

I am a recent LPN grad and I am working in Med/Surg nursing at a local hospital. I live about 20 minutes from Nashville, and they would not hire LPN for the larger hospitals. But I have several friends from school who are working in smaller community hospitals, private duty, LTC, home health, and school nursing. It seems to me, at least in my area, that there are very few places that would not accept an LPN.

Happy,
i am looking for something similar to do, i need something with flexiablity and my own hours. could you tell me how you got started doing that. you can private message me! thanks!

I work in a hospital clinic. My hospital sponsored my education for me to upgrade from a Patient Care Associate (which is a CNA with a bit more skills...similar to medical assistant) to LPN, so I had a guarenteed position upon passing my boards. I have heard that hospitals are phasing out LPNs due to the ambigious nature of the Nurse Practice Acts; and I do hear that many private hospitals have not hired them recently, but there are many other things that I am considering. I just signed with an agency that has many interesting things for me to try, and now, I am thinking about long term care as an agency assignment.

I work on a surgical unit in a well-known hospital. I've worked in community health, women's health, dialysis, and LTC. The pace in LTC is a backbreaker and the workload was horrific. Active treatment was a breath of fresh air!

I am an LPN and work in a peds physician's office. I am the nurse supervisor there and love it. Have been thinking about getting my RN, but in Washington state they mostly hire LPN's for physician's offices. I love doctor's office hours - holidays off - and I love watching my little patients grow up. It's great. I was told that LPN's were being phased out but that was 4 years ago and I still have a job!