Do LPNs/LVNs have to give up their license to work in dialysis?

sissib · Aug 15, 2011

Most places you do not have to "give up" your license to work as a tech. I would try other facilities. I assume if you work as a tech for over 1 yr your LPN license would become inactive unless you take a part time job as LPN in addition to dialysis tech. Techs usually do water room opening and closing duties, preparing machines, preparing patients for treatment, start pt tx's, monitor pt BP Q 30 min, return pt blood post tx vs. ++++ many more duties.

txredheadnurse, BSN, RN · Aug 16, 2011

Your nursing license never becomes inactive unless you request it to be made so or your BON/governing body suspends or rescinds it. So long as a nurse pays their licensure fees & completes whatever CEU requirements are outlined by their states BON you can work in any other field or non nursing position and your license is still active.

To the OP I suspect they are telling you that you have to "give" up your license to work in the center because they don't want to pay you LPN/LVN wages.

GeauxNursing · Aug 24, 2011

yep, pp, that's prob it. I take pts every single day, but I also give their meds. I am paid as an LVN.

klm49 · Aug 24, 2011

Your nursing license never becomes inactive unless you request it to be made so or your BON/governing body suspends or rescinds it. So long as a nurse pays their licensure fees & completes whatever CEU requirements are outlined by their states BON you can work in any other field or non nursing position and your license is still active.
To the OP I suspect they are telling you that you have to "give" up your license to work in the center because they don't want to pay you LPN/LVN wages.

That depends on what state you work in. Here I have work a specific minimum number of hours in a position as an RN as well as complete the necessary CEU's to have my license remain active. If I don't have the required number of work hours, the CEU requirement jumps dramatically. My license has been randomly audited twice now and both time my employer had to send a job description specifying the level of license required for my position and verification of the number of hours I had worked, to the state. Since these are the requirements for an RN, I am assuming they are the same for an LPN. Money and CEU's aren't enough here.

txredheadnurse, BSN, RN · Aug 24, 2011

That depends on what state you work in. Here I have work a specific minimum number of hours in a position as an RN as well as complete the necessary CEU's to have my license remain active. If I don't have the required number of work hours, the CEU requirement jumps dramatically. My license has been randomly audited twice now and both time my employer had to send a job description specifying the level of license required for my position and verification of the number of hours I had worked, to the state. Since these are the requirements for an RN, I am assuming they are the same for an LPN. Money and CEU's aren't enough here.

I'm not trying to provoke an arguement here but your post does state that if the work hours requirement isn't met then you can indeed still keep your license active with just CEUs (even if the amount required increases) and payment of fees. Speaking for myself here I have been licensed in 5 states in my career. None of them required minimum amount of work hours as a LVN/LPN in order to keep an active license. YMMV.

katherine100, LPN · Feb 25, 2013

That has nothing to do with relinquishing your license. No employer can tell you 'give up your license'.

Trauma Columnist · Feb 25, 2013

In IL, I work with an LPN who does the job of a tech but gets paid as an LPN.

Also, she did NOT have to pass the tech certification test.

morte, LPN, LVN · Feb 25, 2013

The old "you are held to the highest lic. you have" prob. you won't be oriented as a nurse, but holding the lic., you will be expectec to act as one. Not by your employer, but under the law.