LVN to RN on same floor?

[ProgressiveThinking]

Just wondering what everyone else's hospital's policy is on current LVNs or LPNs becoming RNs and working on their current floor as a RN. Current LVN here who is set to finish ADN in soon. My hospital requires that if an LVN wants to gain employment on their current floor they have to leave the floor for 6 months. They say your colleagues will always view the new RN as an LVN, which I think is bogus. My boss wants me to work on a different floor so he can hire me when I'm done, but I'm not sure I can handle learning a new workplace full-time while finishing up my last semester.

What is your employer's policy on this? Any thoughts?

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

whether you believe it or not, the change from lpn to rn is a challenge; your management, who has seen this a great deal more often than you have, knows this.

it is so much easier to stay in your comfort zone in the same floor you've always worked. and if you are really serious about professional growth (and you are really not the lpn who says, "i know/can do everything the rn does, we all do the same job, i just lacked the credential"), you need to spread your wings and use and test your new credentials and responsibilities in a new venue.

come back later if the policy allows it and you want to. but don't sell yourself short for comfort alone. allow for the possibility that you might like it somewhere else as you develop into your own rn-ness. growth requires moving out of your comfort zone. you went to school to advance yourself, right? do it.

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

Congrats Jenni811:D:yeah:

Is there a reason you quoted me for this reply???

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

Wow they've ceased hiring LPN/LVN's?

I couldn't imagine working without my EEN's (same as the LPN/LVN's), is it working out? Well this RN and aide only sort of workplace?

And for OP I don't understand why they have that sort of policy, at my facility you can be employed straight onto the same floor you worked at, as a EEN or AIN. I'm assuming they're doing it to protect the new staff, with some ideal you will be badgered at the start of your new role. By the sounds your floor loves you, so shall certainly transfer you back when you have done the six months, can you talk to your NUM about it?

The company hires them for their Clinics and Doctors offices and stuff. Just not for the hospital. I guess it wasn't productive with the restrictions they had or something. That's what I have heard but I am not sure. They haven't been in the big hospital hear in years and I only met one in the smaller hospital. He was working on his RN because he was given a time limit. Things seem to work just fine though. I wouldn't know any different since I am new. But 95% of the time I don't have an aide either. Our census is to low to have one. That will change very soon though with school starting.

[kimmie4476, ASN, RN]

I started as an LPN on my floor then became an RN on the same floor...no one had a problem with it but me lol, I was the only one having to make the change from an LPN mentality to an RN mentality. (That and the fact that I didn't get any orientation or preceptership afterwards)