LPNS in the ER?

We have LPNs in our ER. I used to work PRN in ER.

we don't have LPN's in our ER. it's a level 2 trauma unit.. we are hoping to become a level 3 in the near future.

I've been in the ER for 2 years now. We are a smaller hospital: inpt approx 45 beds, 8 beds in ER counting triage. We never have more than 2 nurses staffed at a time unless we can beg, plead, and borrow from the floor. I pull the 11A-11P shift; the busiest one of all. Outside of the hours I work (and the LPN opposite me), it is staffed by one RN.

I am an LPN and worked in ICU and ER all my career 30+ yrs

Our ED and ICU units do not staff LPN's. It's one of the reasons that I went back to school. Matter of fact, the new policy is now no LPN's in Telemetry or Oncology either. A huge waste of skilled nurses if you ask me.

We don't use LPNs in our ER. We do have one, but she works as unit secretary, not an LPN.

at a hospital i previosly worked and still work prn, they have lpns that work midnights and then day shifts of the weekend. they are their to just assist and do a small triage.

Double Post

It seems to me that unless the LPN has been at the hospital working there for decades in the ER or ICU their are no new LPNs. What I should say is that a department at one time might have had say 5 LPNs now has 1 or 2 LPNs who have been their for at least 20 years or so

Most LPN positions at least in Hospitals around here are in the Transitional Care Units (Nursing home within the hospital) and some in Med Surg and of course psych.

we don't have LPN's in our ER. it's a level 2 trauma unit.. we are hoping to become a level 3 in the near future.

You mean a level 1?