Can I Have time to enjoy being a LPN?

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I'm december graduate of lpn school in VA. I'm currently working on a med/surg floor, and I have two more weeks of orientation. I'm so tired of people asking when am I going back to get my RN. It's like I have to defend myself because I choose to be a LPN. I find myself saying now I'm a lpn, but I'm going back to get my Rn in a year. I just want to enjoy being a nurse although I'm not a RN yet. Does anyone else feel the same way?

Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
People can be thoughtless and rude. I have gotten so nasty with people who have asked that question that they avoid me like the plague. In fact, I said to one woman "Will it make you sleep at night if I decide to become an RN?" She never bothered me again.

Completely understandable. Quite honestly, they're being nosey, and then their question is really another way of saying "why wouldn't you do things the way I would?"

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I'm december graduate of lpn school in VA. I'm currently working on a med/surg floor, and I have two more weeks of orientation. I'm so tired of people asking when am I going back to get my RN. It's like I have to defend myself because I choose to be a LPN. I find myself saying now I'm a lpn, but I'm going back to get my Rn in a year. I just want to enjoy being a nurse although I'm not a RN yet. Does anyone else feel the same way?

I am still in LPN school and I get that all of the time. It is quite annoying!

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