LPNS in the ER?

[BShelleyLPN]

do you guys have any LPNs that work in your ER? i went to nursing school to work in the ER and i know that most LPNs can't work critical care but i plan on going to RN school very soon....

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

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

[ohmeowzer RN, RN]

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.

[NurseCard, ADN]

Yep, we had several of them in the ER of the hospital that I used to work for. It was a small community hospital though.

[HopeItWorksDNP]

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.

[Dalzac, LPN, LVN, RN]

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

[littleRNthatcould]

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.

[hospitalstaph]

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

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

I worked level one trauma center for 10 years: no LPNs in the ER or ICUs either. Reason: the limited practice act. If an RN has to do the assessment or IVP meds then the thought is to just staff with an RN.

This is the reason I went back to school too.

[bradleyshanetaylor]

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.

[drmorton2b]

Double Post

[drmorton2b]

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.