Are you an LPN?

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Hey everyone

Just wondering if you are an LPN what floor you work on or where you work. I start a PN course here in Canada and a few months so I was wondering.

Thank you

Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.
Novo, I've worked shifts where there are 8 scheduled nurses. Usually 3LPNs, 5 RN (including Charge). But when there have been illnesses, no float pool staff, and staff on vacation, it's been 6LPNs and 2 RNs. On an acute care floor in a major Edmonton area hospital. No patients were harmed, no staff were working out of scope.

The unit I currently work is considered a specialty. We are usually a 50/50 split of L and R nurses. For some reason known only to the unit manager the higher acuity patients usually wind up with an LPN despite us pointing out that they belong to an RN.

It's called getting value for the healthcare dollar.

The floors in my facility are pretty much 2 RNs and the rest are PNs.

Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.
Novo, I've worked shifts where there are 8 scheduled nurses. Usually 3LPNs, 5 RN (including Charge). But when there have been illnesses, no float pool staff, and staff on vacation, it's been 6LPNs and 2 RNs. On an acute care floor in a major Edmonton area hospital. No patients were harmed, no staff were working out of scope.

The unit I currently work is considered a specialty. We are usually a 50/50 split of L and R nurses. For some reason known only to the unit manager the higher acuity patients usually wind up with an LPN despite us pointing out that they belong to an RN.

It's called getting value for the healthcare dollar.

My particular floor has no RN on nights any more.

Specializes in Hospital nursing.

I am an RPN and now RN in Ontario. I work in postpartum/L&D as an RPN, but my role is VERY different from that of RNs in the same units.

I went back because I want to do my NP one day, and/or teach. I do fear that I will not have the same job security as an RN that I had as an RPN, so I'm keeping both registrations, because CNO says I can.

I am an RPN and now RN in Ontario. I work in postpartum/L&D as an RPN, but my role is VERY different from that of RNs in the same units.

I went back because I want to do my NP one day, and/or teach. I do fear that I will not have the same job security as an RN that I had as an RPN, so I'm keeping both registrations, because CNO says I can.

That is a very good idea!

That is awesome! How did you get into that? (I'm new here and was asking about the PN who is in Forensics NextGenRPN.)

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