Will RNs soon become mandatory over LPNs?

it depends on where you want to work. If you are looking at LTC/nursing home then there are positions for LPNs, but if you are looking at hospital and clinic jobs then there are small pickings. All the hospitals around me don't really hire LPNs and like someone else mentioned,.. the ones who are there are due to seniority and have been working there for years. Now the hospitals find it cheaper to just rearrange nursing care approaches like the creation of IV infusion teams, training CNAs to do phlebotomy, and get this... ROBOT MEDICATION DISTRIBUTORS!! From what I here these robots actually give the patient the pills and scans their bracelet and such,.. I just recently heard about this while recert'ing for my BLS so I can't go much into detail,.. but yeah,.. the hospital is finding ways to cut jobs majorly.

Nursing homes are different,.. its usually 1-2 nurses per unit and then you have more LPNS than nurses,... but this also is slllooowwwllly changing.

good luck!

Ummm...LPN's ARE nurses so the whole "More LPN's than NURSES" is an odd statement.

Lpn's aren't going anywhere. LTC facilities are giving preference to LPN's because they are cheaper than RN's. I know of many facilities that are cutting RN's overtime and giving the jobs to LPN's. RN's have been saying for YEARS that LPN's are slllooowwwly being phased out. Not gonna happen. Don't worry about it...get your LPN and then do a bridge program to RN. You will find work.