I have less than a year of LPN/LVN experience and I am still looking for a job. My ultimate goal is to become an RN and I'm in the process of bridging into a program.
Does LPN/LVN nursing experience count as "work experience" once I get my RN license and apply for RN jobs? Or will it not matter because the scope of practice are different between LPN/LVN and RNs?
I'd just like to know if it makes sense for me to continue looking for a job if I am still unemployed and accepted in RN bridge program.
does that mean that if one has 2 years of lvn/lpn experience, maybe even during nursing school - after nursing school one is not counted as new grad ??? (since that seems to be the problem; to get a position without being a new grad, since there are almost no new grad programs anymore)
i was counted as a new grad, and i'm glad i was because it allowed me the proper transition into the acute care world in a hospital. i went through the new grad orientation. the consideration they gave to my lvn experience was only related to pay. they started me off with the same pay they would have started an rn with 1 year experience, because i had 2 years of lvn experience. now, they counted it because i was working as an lvn during those 2 years, even when i was in the bridge program for lvn-rn
Most Bay Area hospitals in California will not give you any credit for being and LVN, no matter how many years of experience you have working in Med/Surg and other areas of acute care in the hospital. As a matter of fact, in many instances, you will be considered for their "New Grad programs" just as if you started out as a brand new RN without any prior nursing experience whatsoever.
Ewww this wouldn't have made me very happy considering in psych as a LPN I was doing nearly the exact same job. I'm glad I was able to just change title and get the pay increase when I passed NCLEX RN.
i am a lpn with 6 years experience due to graduate as an rn this summer. the hospital i work for is counting this as "experience" and i will be hired as a level ii nurse. i guess it varies but experience can't hurt.
I'm glad I was able to just change title and get the pay increase when I passed NCLEX RN.
missdeevah, NP
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i was counted as a new grad, and i'm glad i was because it allowed me the proper transition into the acute care world in a hospital. i went through the new grad orientation. the consideration they gave to my lvn experience was only related to pay. they started me off with the same pay they would have started an rn with 1 year experience, because i had 2 years of lvn experience. now, they counted it because i was working as an lvn during those 2 years, even when i was in the bridge program for lvn-rn