Frustrated

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Kymmi

340 Posts

Specializes in CVICU-ICU.

Pagandeva----excellent post !! You said what I was trying to say in my post. RN's and LPN's have different roles but those roles involve overlaping duties. I do believe that the LPN's that have a difficult time with the RN's sometimes have a general perception that RN's treat them badly or feel they are superior. I realize that there are those RN's that do that to LPN's but in reality I've seen RN's do the same to other RN's and I think it stems from insecurity in themselves. It is a sad situation because as the saying goes one bad apple................

dschueler

116 Posts

I enjoy this hierarchy of nursing so much that I have been a LPN for less than one year and am thinking of going back to school for something totally unrelated to nursing. I've worked as a CNA and as a Pharmacy Technician, which are both part of a support system, but working as a LPN falls into a different type of category. I'm not sure which, but somewhere else. Since I've been a LPN, I've never been made to fell so inadaquate in my life. I was never made to feel less than what I was in the other areas I worked in. The bad thing is that because of this heirarchy, I'm pretty much sure as soon as my kids are a couple of years older, I'm going back to school, but I don't think for nursing. I don't want to continue in a field where we are supposed to be the most caring and nurturing of all professions, but are the most petty, competitive and demeaning. I'm not singling out RN's for the LPN's limited scope of practice, but the societal(sp) norm of today and the government that supports it. I want to work in a profession where I am treated as either equal or part of a team, and not any less. The sad thing is, is that I'm the first person to graduate from high school or go to college in my whole family and at one time when I started my pre-reqs I thoroughly thought nursing was what I wanted, but I did not realize you weren't good enough until you received your master or higher. One thing that makes me angry is that working at a family practice clinic and in LTC at present, my patients love me and I thorougly care for all of them and am an excellent nurse. None of them know I'm just a LPN and I really don't think they care, but everyone else does, (society). I hope that society isn't set itself up for a real nursing shortage when the people who were going to go to LPN school with the hopes of working anywhere they wanted, decide to change their career, like myself, because of so much limitation. What would the world be like without any LPN's? If they keep limiting us and belittling us, it may come to that. We somehow need to stand together and get these facilities and government to let us practice to our full potential.

I can hear your frustration and bitterness throughout your post. You are sooo right, but what are you doing this for?? Recognition? Self satisfaction of a job well done?? I quit LPN school before because of all the negativity associated with LPNs vs. RNs, and now I am going back to LPN school, and now that I am grown up, 41, and was about 27 before...and I have been in RN school, but we moved out of the country both times, then I have to say, I have matured and found what really matters is my own happiness. No one can dictate to me my own self worth except myself and God. I am who I am based on what God made me to be....and if I never get my RN, then so be it, that was God's will, and I know who I am so I could care less what people think. My attitude and the way I perform my job and my patients will all I need to confirm my ability. The respect I gain for my job will be done out of how I perform, not what letters go behind my name, and if they are disrespectful, then so be it, its their problem not mine!

I will just make sure that everyone around me will know that I am the type of nurse they can come to do get it done correctly and done right....regardless if I am an LPN or RN. Just make sure your decisions are based out of careful, thoughtful consideration and not anger or a sense of "getcha back".

Be true to yourself, sounds like you are one heck of a nurse, and they will be sorry they lost you....just make sure its not to teach them a lesson, and because your desires are truly changed....I just feel when I read your post, God say to me that the anger is clouding your judgement, so put it to prayer and thoughtful consideration and God will direct your path :)

I hope you don't mind me saying so, but I hate to see a wonderful NURSE leave the profession.....we do need you!!! I want to learn from nurses like you!!!

:)

Deb

pagandeva2000, LPN

7,984 Posts

Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
Pagandeva----excellent post !! You said what I was trying to say in my post. RN's and LPN's have different roles but those roles involve overlaping duties. I do believe that the LPN's that have a difficult time with the RN's sometimes have a general perception that RN's treat them badly or feel they are superior. I realize that there are those RN's that do that to LPN's but in reality I've seen RN's do the same to other RN's and I think it stems from insecurity in themselves. It is a sad situation because as the saying goes one bad apple................

Thank you for the compliment, Kymmi

pagandeva2000, LPN

7,984 Posts

Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
I can hear your frustration and bitterness throughout your post. You are sooo right, but what are you doing this for?? Recognition? Self satisfaction of a job well done?? I quit LPN school before because of all the negativity associated with LPNs vs. RNs, and now I am going back to LPN school, and now that I am grown up, 41, and was about 27 before...and I have been in RN school, but we moved out of the country both times, then I have to say, I have matured and found what really matters is my own happiness. No one can dictate to me my own self worth except myself and God. I am who I am based on what God made me to be....and if I never get my RN, then so be it, that was God's will, and I know who I am so I could care less what people think. My attitude and the way I perform my job and my patients will all I need to confirm my ability. The respect I gain for my job will be done out of how I perform, not what letters go behind my name, and if they are disrespectful, then so be it, its their problem not mine!

I will just make sure that everyone around me will know that I am the type of nurse they can come to do get it done correctly and done right....regardless if I am an LPN or RN. Just make sure your decisions are based out of careful, thoughtful consideration and not anger or a sense of "getcha back".

Be true to yourself, sounds like you are one heck of a nurse, and they will be sorry they lost you....just make sure its not to teach them a lesson, and because your desires are truly changed....I just feel when I read your post, God say to me that the anger is clouding your judgement, so put it to prayer and thoughtful consideration and God will direct your path :)

I hope you don't mind me saying so, but I hate to see a wonderful NURSE leave the profession.....we do need you!!! I want to learn from nurses like you!!!

:)

Deb

I am glad that you decided to follow your heart and re-enter LPN school after your experiences. It is true, we cannot live through someone else's eyes or expectations.

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