LPN's who were CNA, CMT, PCT, etc...

[dblpn]

I'm a cna/pct and a med tech with about 20yrs of experience working in various healthcare settings. i'm an lpn-rn student. i'll get my lpn diploma next feb. and will go into an rn program. i have a few job inquiries that look promising when i graduate from lpn school. i would like to know if any of you lpn's were cna's or cmt's and after you graduated did that experience count towards an increase in your pay as an lpn?

here in mo., i've heard that some rn's get a pay increase upon graduation if they have nursing assistant experience. i havent heard that about lpn's though.

thanks

[pagandeva2000, LPN]

I'm a cna/pct and a med tech with about 20yrs of experience working in various healthcare settings. i'm an lpn-rn student. i'll get my lpn diploma next feb. and will go into an rn program. i have a few job inquiries that look promising when i graduate from lpn school. i would like to know if any of you lpn's were cna's or cmt's and after you graduated did that experience count towards an increase in your pay as an lpn?

here in mo., i've heard that some rn's get a pay increase upon graduation if they have nursing assistant experience. i havent heard that about lpn's though.

thanks

I used to be a bit of all mentioned, and never heard of an increase in pay due to these experiences. Does not mean that it can't happen, just saying that it never came up in my area. I do believe that it does help towards experience on the job, though. I was a phlebotomist, also, and that has certainly helped me to not be afraid to manipulate difficult veins and start IV lines.

[kat7ap]

I have never heard of a nurse getting experience years counted for being anything other than a licensed nurse. Some places don't even count LPN experience for RN or they give 1 year experience for every 2 years worked as a LPN. However, you may be able to try to negotiate since you have so much experience. Some places won't budge at all on wages. I would think that it will surely help you get a job though!

[Mom2Cassidy]

I haven't heard about getting a better salary. I have been told that pervious expierence will help you in getting a job. Atleast that is what I am hoping!! I am a soon-to-be LPN student with 5 years of GNA expierence!

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

Sorry, but previous work experience as a CNA, PCT, CMT, MA, and so forth, is not regarded as valid nursing experience. Therefore, a new LPN with previous medical field experience is usually paid as a new grad with no nursing experience.

Many hospitals will pay a new grad RN more money than the prevailing new hire pay rate if the person has previous experience as an LPN. In my area, a few of the facilities will credit you with 1 year of RN experience for every 2 or 3 years of LPN experience you've accrued.

[sasha2lady]

I was a cna for about 6 yrs and when I finished my LPN and got licensed...my cna experience didnt count for squat. No extra pay..nothing. Woulda been nice though!

[dblpn]

I was a cna for about 6 yrs and when I finished my LPN and got licensed...my cna experience didnt count for squat. No extra pay..nothing. Woulda been nice though!

yeah, that would've been nice to have your six yrs counted as something. i think they should compensate for that kind of experience since nurses are taught cna work in fundementals of nursing, e.g. bed making, bathing, vital signs, transferring, feeding, rom, weights, etc...

[mama_d, BSN, RN]

Hello there! I'm in MO too, near St. Louis. My PCT experience didn't make one iota of difference in my pay when I first started out. Sorry.

[caliotter3]

My CNA experience did not count for any pay increase. However, I was hired by facilities that had employed me as a CNA, so it might have helped me get the jobs.

[itsmyturn]

I didn't get more money but it did help me get a job. I know how to do the CNA skills I learned but the hospital I work in utilizes nursing assistants so we never have to do those skills. I do everything that I was taught as an LPN..we were never in a CNA role except the first week of my clinical and nothing I learned in the practical nursing was presented to me in my CNA class. I used to think that my experience should count but now that I am in a nursing role I understand why it did not...nothing to do with what I do now. Some states may teach the areas differently but not here.

[newbie26]

I was a CNA at the hospital I work at and I do get paid more than my fellow graduates.

[dblpn]

I was a CNA at the hospital I work at and I do get paid more than my fellow graduates.

hey that's cool, newbie. i think a new grad should get compensation for their prior experience in nursing because cna's/pct's work their butts off. at one facility were i was working i overheard an lpn state how much she makes, i was like are you kidding me?...well i didn't say it to her but she was making $1 more than i was as a cna. haha...if only she knew.