Are we being phased out?

austin heart, BSN, RN · Feb 12, 2006

Please do a search. There was a HUGE thread about this that got quiet heated.

fishchick72 · Feb 12, 2006

sorry, didn't mean to cause any problems, I'm pretty new here, was just sincerely curious as to what was going on in what areas, that's all.

HeartsOpenWide, RN · Feb 12, 2006

They do not hire LVN's at the hospitals around here. They are all hired at nursing homes. I am not sure if it is state wide, but it is sure like that around here. They do not even have CNA's in the hospitals, the RN's have to do the work....ever since Arnie's new nursing ratio's, the hospitals can not afford it.

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Feb 13, 2006

I am in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Some hospitals still hire LVNs around here, but the pay is miserable. So I choose to not work at hospitals. I'd rather work at a nursing home where the pace is slower and the hourly pay rate is better.

DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN · Feb 13, 2006

How is it looking in your area? Where I'm at several hospitals have stopped hiring LVNs. I am still an LVN, so this is bad news for me. Especially since there's been a lot of changes at my hospital over the past year (for the worst) & I want desperately to find another job. But I will be graduating in the spring with my RN, so I am hanging on for now.

I was an LPN for 26 years and this same theory/threat was talked about 30 years ago when I went to LPN school. I don't foresee it ever happening. LPN's are far to valuable!

BigB · Feb 13, 2006

They do not hire LVN's at the hospitals around here. They are all hired at nursing homes. I am not sure if it is state wide, but it is sure like that around here. They do not even have CNA's in the hospitals, the RN's have to do the work....ever since Arnie's new nursing ratio's, the hospitals can not afford it.

yup.... the hospitals here don't hire lvn's either. I heard corrections is phasing out lvn's too. Iam in a nursing home now and hate it.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Feb 13, 2006

They attempted to do that here YEARS ago, but that left a huge nursing shortage.

Trauma Columnist · Feb 13, 2006

I live in IL and here they hire LPNs for nursing homes and that's about it. Congrats on soon graduating!

vloho · Feb 18, 2006

I don't understand,I just don't understand. The NH where I work keeps adding paperwork and procedures to the point that one can't get it all done. One nurse is done with her work and the other is running so for behind. Admitts and discharges charting on a kiosk, and someone always saying "you've got to get this done" untill it won't all fit into an 8 hr shift

fishchick72 · Feb 18, 2006

I don't understand,I just don't understand. The NH where I work keeps adding paperwork and procedures to the point that one can't get it all done. One nurse is done with her work and the other is running so for behind. Admitts and discharges charting on a kiosk, and someone always saying "you've got to get this done" untill it won't all fit into an 8 hr shift

yep, have the exact same thing at my job too.........

MNlpn · Feb 21, 2006

I don't understand,I just don't understand. The NH where I work keeps adding paperwork and procedures to the point that one can't get it all done. One nurse is done with her work and the other is running so for behind. Admitts and discharges charting on a kiosk, and someone always saying "you've got to get this done" untill it won't all fit into an 8 hr shift

Thats the way it was at the nursing home i worked at once. The DON even had the nerve to tell me (us) we had to learn to budget our time better!:angryfire I'm a VERY well organized nurse, and there simply wasn't enough time in an 8 hour shift to get it all done. I wanted to tell the cloven hooved b***h to drag her big butt up to the floor and try and do it herself once. But I bit my tongue and kept my mouth shut. A month or so later I up and quit, couldn't take it anymore! I got a job at a local metro hospital, and it has been a MUCH better experience for me. Not to metion much better pay!