LPN's Role in the ICU?

I respectfully disagree.
Obviously, many do, in fact, want to hear it as it is an extremely popular topic on this forum and it comes up fairly often.

But if someone really doesn't want to hear about it, it needs to be kept in mind that no one is forcing anyone to read and/or participate in RN vs. LPN type threads.

Discussing the issue doesn't necessarily merit the "bad attitude" or "high horse" labels.

I'm curious about what you study and learn in a BSN program the extra two years. Is a lot of it clinical? I've worked with a lot of RNs who never even put in a catheter or an NG tube and many other bedside procedures. In LPN school we had to be checked off on three of most procedures to graduate. I personally think the best RNs are those that were LPNs first, as they get more clinical time than a two-year RN.

LPN/LVNs in ICU? Not on my watch and my license. You are not as capable or educated as an RN, and you have no place in ICU. Period. There are more appropriate areas to for you to work in, that would better utilize your education and scope of practice.

LIndarn, RN, BSN, CCRN
Spokane, Washington

No discussing the issues do not, however, that is not the case. There is no excuse for the comments that some posters have made about LPNs

I think the LPN'S are a Little touchy! But I guess they have just cause. My point is if they went back to school and became an RN, there would not be any discussion about their presence in the ICU unit.

I am not touchy, but more along the lines of taken back at some of the increasingly harsh comments posted here. I have no intention of ever working in ICU, its not my bag baby. I know my limits and it stops well short of anything critical. However, I do get the feeling that some posters in this thread look towards LVN's as incapable of nursing period. Just my opinion. No need to start the LVN/RN war again.

Discussing the issue doesn't necessarily merit the "bad attitude" or "high horse" labels