I'm a real nurse!!! Thank you!

MWheatLPN · Feb 20, 2017

This board is the most real board I believe I've ever read! I just graduated from nursing school in December 2016, & received my license 1/30/2017, out of all the excitement and happy tears rolling off of cloud 9 that day, the question that EVERY SINGLE PERSON has asked me and basically pleaded and just about demanded that I do is....ARE YOU GOING BACK FOR YOUR RN? Then proceed to tell and demand that I should because you'll always be at the bottom as "JUST AN LPN"

First off...excuse me??

Secondly...do you know what LPN stands for? LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE!

Third...I AM A NURSE!

Fourth and foremost...RESPECT ME, I became a nurse in the first place to take care of you, your family, friends, and anyone in need..& if that isn't good enough for you then I'm sorry. There's a fine line between them asking to just see if you're going to put more education behind your belt and wanting to know because they don't look at you as a "REAL NURSE (RN)" since that's what it stand for right? LOL!

BUT with it all being said and done, I am overly joyed doing what I do..

Hello, my name is M.Wheat, LPN, I am a geriatric nurse, and I am EXACTLY what I aspired to be and where God wanted me to be!

Thank you for posting this board, completely made my day seeing it, and seeing that I and my classmates weren't the only ones facing these problems!

Much love to all sisters and brothers of the LPN world,

ðŸ’–Meghan