am i considered "experienced"?

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Hi, I've been an LPN for a year now at a nursing home and will soon become an RN, hoping to land a hospital position. Does my one year LPN count as experience by a hospital, or just RN?

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Your LPN experience will be considered as just that. LPN experience, not RN experience. Who knows if it will help you with getting an RN job at a hospital. Good luck.

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I think it will put you ahead of new grads who have no related healthcare experience, but you don't have experience as an RN, which is what they are looking for.

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Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.

op: yes, you will still be considered a new grad. your lpn experience, even if it was 20 years, would not count toward rn work experience. i think that is wrong and insane, but that is reality in most places. on the bright side, at least you will not be literally starting from scratch. at least you have some nursing sense that true new grads lack. gl!

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