LPN verses MLPN?????

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Hi, I am currently trying to get into the LPN program at my school. I have lots of people telling me to just go for my RN, but at the moment scheduling makes it impossible. So, I'm planning on LPN/RN bridge. My question is what is the difference between a MLPN and a LPN? I work at a hospital and they seem to hire MLPNs.

Also, where is the best places to work as a LPN? Pay ranges?

Thanks your help in advance,

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Never heard of MLPN. Probably a new term coined by the hospital to make its jobs look more desirable or to distinguish duties at a glance, maybe the M stands for "medical". Hospitals have started using the phrase, "Patient Care Technician", or similar, to lend an aura of special to someone who is a CNA with some added employer training/duties. A CNA is a CNA and an LPN is an LPN.

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That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure.

Thanks

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You know, in general, you're not considered to have medical or surgical experience, until you've done that type of work in an acute care hospital, so that might have something to do with the designation, as opposed to say an LPN who has only worked in a LTC facility.

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Specializes in LTC, Memory loss, PDN.

MLPN = Male LPN

just kidding, I have no clue what it stands for

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MLPN = Male LPN

just kidding, I have no clue what it stands for

If it stands for "male" LPN, I wonder if they're being subtle enough? :smokin:

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Specializes in LTC, Memory loss, PDN.
If it stands for "male" LPN, I wonder if they're being subtle enough? :smokin:

Ok, now my title just changed to SMLPN (s = slow)

subtle enough? - I don't get it :confused:

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Specializes in Hospice/Mental Health/LTC/Home Health.

I think it has something to do with medications. The Ohio Board of Nursing has started classifying LPNs not only for IV therapy cert, but also if ur cert to give medications. Because d/t discipline I guess some arent, or for other reasons I guess. But I did a search on google and under this link it also had a link to Duke University and a job description of an LPN and it sounded like regular old LPN duties. so IDK.

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Specializes in Hospice/Mental Health/LTC/Home Health.

heres the link to Duke

http://hr.duke.edu/jobs/descr_duhs/select.php?ID=4521

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A few years back, I remember seeing want ads in Ohio for CLPNs...never figured out what that meant either.

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

What the heck is an MLPN? sigh. . just another one of those fancy new feel-good names for the same thing we've done since the Pleistocene Epoch? :uhoh21:

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I've never heard of an MLPN either.:confused:

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