Are you content with being an LPN?

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Are you content with being an LPN, and what is your pay and your job responsibilities and where do you reside?

If you're content with just being an LPN, WHY? and if not, do you plan to become an RN or something totally different?

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Im a brand new LPn, no job yet. I hope I end up content in my LPN role, I can only think of 1 or 2 reasons to go back for my RN and about 2 dozen why not to. I just graduated and nothing irks me more than when first comment people make is that I have to go back for my RN.

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I'm a LPN in a state facility in Michigan. More often than not, I'm just the med nurse, but if there's no RN on, then I'm suddenly "promoted" to charge nurse. I make 22.97 an hr before shift differential.

I would be more than happy to stay where I am, but I'm uncertain about the future of LPNs. With the economy the way it is, there are WAY to many new grad RNs out there looking for a job, any job. They're like a herd of zombies in that WALKING DEAD show, roaming the countryside desperately grabbing for jobs. Most are now willing to do LPN level jobs for LPN level wages. You do the math, where will that leave the LPN? Thank God where I work there's a union that dictates RNs CANNOT be hired in as staff nurses, they can only be management....

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Specializes in Med-Surg/urology.

I like being a LPN. Im in a BSN program that gave us the option to take the nclex-pn after junior yr. It has been a really good experience & I hope it will help when I become an RN.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

I am a Practical Nurse in Ontario Canada. I work in a hospital and I make $27.50/hr. I am absolutely happy being a PN and I have no desire to be an RN. Where I work PNs are in all areas except ICU.I have no urge to be in charge.I am 46 with 2 kids in college and I don't want the debt or the extra work that going back to school would bring.

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Specializes in Telemetry/Stepdown, Government Nursing.

I've been an LPN for 11 years now. When I finished the LPN program, I intended to go straight into the transition to RN, but I got pregnant and three more kids later, here I am, making an attempt to get my RN. I am proud to be an LPN. I have been a Charge Nurse in long term care, in which I supervised other LPNs and did everything except care plans. Now, I work in a government facility that has alot of restrictions on what an LPN can do. I took a pay cut. I used to make $23 an hour, but now I am salaried (about $21.50) with excellent benefits. Only problem is I have a salary cap, I can only advance but so far. I also have found that I make the same amount as alot of our nursing assistants. The work is physically demanding, which I don't mind now, I'm still young. I'm getting my RN because I don't believe I can continue doing this when I'm in my 60's, and in government facilities the only desk or less physically demanding jobs for nurses are only for RNs.

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I have never been "just an LPN". Lose that mindset.

I work in Alberta, Canada. In a nationally known hospital on a specialty service. I earn $31 at the top of my payscale.

Like Lori, I won't be returning to school for my BScN, I only intend to work another five to six years and then I'm done. The student loans, lost income, and pension payments, don't make it worthwhile.

I'm a bedside nurse and that's what I enjoy. There is something happening in Canadian nursing and we're not sure what it is BUT PN education is now two years at College and is basically the old RN diploma course. RN entry point is now the BScN. The skill set divide on my service is the piercing of a blood or travisol bag and the Charge Role.

Health care is publicly funded and maximum use of the dollar is expected. Financially, it is looking like the RN union has priced them out of the bedside role.

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I am ok with being a pn, but i want to be a rn so i just pass my nclex pn and about to start rn transition in january. Also i am going for my phd in nursing i will be 31 by the time am done with phd, so am happy because i am going for bigger.

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Specializes in hospice, HH, LTC, ER,OR.

LPN 3 years, I make 25 hour in Georgia I am prn at a hospice company and weekend baylor in home health. I do like being an LPN but I dont have much room for growth. I can only work in Doctors' office, clinics, LTC, corrections, home health and some hospice positions. No hospital work unless I have been an LPN 25+ years or I work as a tech and now most of those LPNs are back in LTC. I want to travel and being an NP. I am finishing my first semester of LPN-RN bridge program. I don't mind being an LPN but I mind having limited places to work and a salary cap.

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Specializes in hospice, HH, LTC, ER,OR.

LPN 3 years, I make 25 hour in Georgia I am prn at a hospice company and weekend baylor in home health. I do like being an LPN but I dont have much room for growth. I can only work in Doctors' office, clinics, LTC, corrections, home health and some hospice positions. No hospital work unless I have been an LPN 25+ years or I work as a tech and now most of those LPNs are back in LTC. I want to travel and being an NP. I am finishing my first semester of LPN-RN bridge program. I don't mind being an LPN but I mind having limited places to work and a salary cap.

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I'm a LPN with 3 years experience tele. 5 years exo as nurse tech and 8,years as a EMT-B I work float pool at HCA I make 27.00 base with 5.00 shift diff I'm ACLS cert so LPN can make bank money :)

Dustin Cox\,£¥

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I'm a LPN in a state facility in Michigan. More often than not, I'm just the med nurse, but if there's no RN on, then I'm suddenly "promoted" to charge nurse. I make 22.97 an hr before shift differential.

I would be more than happy to stay where I am, but I'm uncertain about the future of LPNs. With the economy the way it is, there are WAY to many new grad RNs out there looking for a job, any job. They're like a herd of zombies in that WALKING DEAD show, roaming the countryside desperately grabbing for jobs. Most are now willing to do LPN level jobs for LPN level wages. You do the math, where will that leave the LPN? Thank God where I work there's a union that dictates RNs CANNOT be hired in as staff nurses, they can only be management....

What union do you have and is there an RN union where you work?

Do you think a lot of LPN's in unions have been replaced by non-bargaining unit RN's?

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