Lpns and Working with children??

LPNs are trained as generalist nurses, so they can pick any specialty they want without having to take extra steps, just as long as some employer is willing to hire them into their desired specialty.

If you want to work with children, you could work in pediatric private duty, which is a booming area of job growth for LPNs. There's also pediatric doctors offices and teen clinics, although medical assistants are obtaining a greater share of the jobs in doctors offices and clinics because their labor costs are lower.

Another avenue of working with children besides extended care home health, is school nurse. You can work for the school district and are essentially the "school nurse" we may remember from our childhood. Or you can work for a home health agency and work one on one with a peds home health client who goes to school. You may, or may not, accompany that child on the school bus. Sometimes the district employs these one on one nurses and not a home health agency. This assignment can be fun. You get to go to school again while you work with your middle or high school aged client. Once knew a nurse who attended college with his young adult client. He drove him in the client's van. More like a buddy, than a nurse.