NO MORE LPNs

Brenda123 · Jan 28, 2009

Hopefully not. The one school here you take classes to become an LPN then you are on a huge waitng list for RN. They won't let you go straight to a RN program. We will have to see...

Seishiro · Jan 28, 2009

I live in NJ. I know Kessler have a lot of LPNs but they are one the hospitals that went bankrupt and are rumored to be closing anytime. This makes me sad because when I do my clinical rotations there, the LPNs are SO nice and helpful. It's like a big family there. I'll be sad to see them go. But there are a lot of hospitals in my area who don't want LPNs. Virtua I know is not hiring LPNs, only in the rehab centers. I currently work in LTC in another undisclosed location and they are offering me a job when I get my LPN... but I want something a little more... exciting?

lpn2icu · Jan 28, 2009

77 million baby boomers!

...LPN will stay for a long while!

"They" had been saying it ever since before I became an LPN in 1999.

As of today, I still hear people saying it! I have became an RN since 2004.

Just don't forget you have 77 million aging baby boomers waiting to be sick!

NurseKatie08, MSN · Jan 28, 2009

Gotta love the mysterious "they".

As other posters have mentioned, maybe LPNs are not utilized as much in hospitals, but they surely are in other settings. I work on a subacute floor within a SNF alongside many, many LPNs, whose job is no different than mine--a staff nurse. Only difference is that if a patient expires, I can pronounce them (with a telephone order from a MD for RN pronouncement, we are allowed to do this in my setting, but usually the RN supervisor takes care of it)

sunray12 · Jan 28, 2009

i was a lpn working med-surg and i remember them saying at a meeting that they were no longer going to hire lpns and they let 75% of the lpns go. i was one who was " grandfathered " in to continue working as a nurse but some others were made to work only as a cna. now the hospital is in finacial trouble and is thinking about hiring lpns so the rns can take heavier patient assignments. i think it is just a cycle.

^^i think lpn's will be making a comeback. anyway at this point there are too many log jams in the present system of training rn's - sooner than later lpn's will start making more and more sense.