Fired all the LPN's

Nurses LPN/LVN

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med-Surg.

So the hospital I work for called all the LPN's into a meeting on Friday to let them all know effective immediately they were to hand in their badges and clean out their lockers they were all being replace with RN's so the hospital could implement a new care delivery model. I am an RN and was mortified that they would treat excellent LPN's that have been loyal for years some for 30+. None of these nurses were offered another position in outpatient settings or given the option to continue their education to acheive their RN. The "severence package" was 2 weeks of pay and 1 month of benefits. Has anyone ever heard of something so abrupt being done to LPN's at other hospitals? The message that I felt was sent to all employees is that we are disposable and that no remorse is felt when letting loyal members of the healthcare system go. Oh and prior to this the layed of 50 employees so as not to have to lay off anymore including LPN's!

Aside from the horrible way these nurses were treated, have fun until they replace them. Can we say, "Short-staffed"?

Specializes in Cardiac Care, Palliative Care.

I worked part-time at a Hospice facility that fired all LPNs with no notice. But they did relocate them to a nursing home facility.

Yes, I have seen large layoffs to make way for change in delivery of care done in this way, shocking isn't?

That sounds awful. The hospital in my community won't employ LPNs, but it will use them for free labor while they are in school.

Specializes in LTC, Acute Care.

That is cruel. In this environment of nursing jobs being difficult to come by, maybe even more so for the LPNs, 2 weeks is simply not enough time for these LPNs to find employment, particularly now that they will be competing for the jobs that are available.

I reckon that what comes around will go around.

Specializes in icu/er ccrn.

no union i guess.

Specializes in med surg ltc psych.

May I ask what state this happened in? I am currently an LPN and I have come to regret going to school, and the shoddy way we are treated and classified. Who would now want to try so hard to be accepted into a nursing program where you end up not being accepted as a licensed nurse and part of a healthcare team. I mean I wouldn't advise someone who might ask me if they should go get their LPN to do it. This is sad that the nursing profession is now something to not recomend to anyone.

I have seen this happen in a hospital in Georgia. It did not last long due to the hospital could not find enough RN's to do the work. They hire a limited number of LPNs now.

Wow! Just--wow! What the heck is happening to society that the people can be treated this way, their livelihoods just tossed away with no thought to their past loyalty or their future? I thought we were having a hard time. Hubby was told just last week that his position has been "eliminated," but at least they have given him a few months notice and a decent severance package. Unbelievable. My heart goes out to your (ex) co-workers. :scrying:

This is precisely why prospective nurses are encouraged to seek out a BSN degree to go along with an RN license. I found out that I was disposable a long time ago. It is not a new notion to me.

This is terrible. If management knew beforehand they would be eliminating LPN's, they should have rightfully notified them that they could retain employment by seeking their RN. Oops, I forget I'm union, and everyone who lives in a right to work state is free to find work where they may.

Sad, sad, sad. What a terrible recession we're going through. No one in health care should have to lose their job. I'm sick about how this affects the public, too.

Public option should not be optional, it should be mandatory and in place. Why are we as a country so behind? In a country with a PH option, LPN's could make a huge difference in providing care.

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