i don't want my post to be the venue for an LPN-RN debate...this is just my opinion about the topic...
i understand that not EVERYBODY want to be an RN and that NOT everyone stays as an LPN...different situations calls for a different approach...we as nurses should be bonded and not debate amongst ourselves of who has the best career...it's hard enough explaining to the lay person what we do and how important we are and not "just nurses"...that we don't need to badmouth each other...
Statistically speaking everyone can be made to look better than anyone else. Go figure, numbers games have swayed political votes and made bad hospitals look good. As a person with a knack for numbers I have baffled my way into some really hideous committees. I have also found some significance in what my co-workers have told me in their words, found a way to show that in numbers and we got what we needed. Numbers seem to impress the administration, that is their language.
I did not say thet a RN was better than a LPN/LVN. Experience is the best teacher. Believe me, I would rather have an experienced LPN/LVN as a team member than a novice RN. It is our job, RN or LPN/LVN to assist the newbies to learn as experiences involving patients occur so that they will gain experience and that they will become competent to care for those when they next encounter the same scenario. My point was that the boards taken are to license one as a RN or LPN/LVN and that both ADN and BSN prepared RNs take the same boards regardless of their education background. I've had this same argument in the presence of administration personnel during union negotiations and made it perfectly clear that I have much respect for experienced LPNs, whom I have learned from in my 20 years of practice. Again a PROFESSIONAL NURSE is one who provides quality care to her patients regardless of education level or title behind her name. :) :)
orrnlori, RN
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Ain't that the truth. :chuckle