No travel LPN positions

[apache2010]

I've been an LPN over 35 years, where all my experienced have been in the ER, ICU, Tel, PACU and the Burn Unit. Just retired from the US Army and been looking every where for a travel job, but all I've found claimed to hire LPN, but don't have any positions available. This is what I have, 2 LPN licensed, Washington and Florida, EMT, BCLS, ACLS, PALS, EKG tech and IV certified...and still can not find a place to utilize my skills. Are we a dying bread? Anyone with info, please let me know. Have a blessed day.

[Sherriblu]

I know how you feel. lpns aren't valued like

they used to be but here in Texas they do have more options.

[njlpn421]

Lpn should be valued.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

LPN's are valued...however, as the push for more and more education even ADN RN's are not finding positions as facilities are hiring BSN new grads only. Many state have decided to severely limit the LPN's scope of practice and this is becoming more prevalent. Sad really.

With the terrible job market and many unemployed RN's facilities are opting for travel RN's. When looking at expense and hiring a RN or LPN the facilities are hiring the RN. The cost is about the same and it is the broader license.

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

The only travel LPN positions I have been informed of are in Sub-Acute or LTC; no acute care; I still get the occasional recruitment for LPN positions although I am a RN now.

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

LPN's are valued...however, as the push for more and more education even ADN RN's are not finding positions as facilities are hiring BSN new grads only. Many state have decided to severely limit the LPN's scope of practice and this is becoming more prevalent. Sad really.

With the terrible job market and many unemployed RN's facilities are opting for travel RN's. When looking at expense and hiring a RN or LPN the facilities are hiring the RN. The cost is about the same and it is the broader license.

What she said.

The scope of practice has become narrowed, and the push for higher education has made competition between LPNs and RNs non-existent: it's the RN who will get placed in the areas you mentioned in your post, in which you have experience.

I once worked with a phenomenal LPN, with decades of experience doing pretty much everything....and over the course of several years her ability to work in many areas was cut back further and further. Why? Because our Nursing Practice Act as well as the facilities' policies made it so that she had no autonomy to do things she once did, was not allowed to do others....she required RN oversight. And with that being the case, HR was simply hiring RNs to do the job, rather than having LPNs do it and still need additional RN time on each case. But there is one thing to note: while having decades of experience, what she DIDN'T have in terms of classroom learning really was starting to affect her ability in the acute setting: she didn't have much of an understanding of lab values, what drugs should or should not be given in situations where labs were askew. And this definitely DID affect what patients she could get assigned, as the rest of us just didn't have time for constant questions of "should I or shouldn't I" and "what do I do" becoming more common. She was a good nurse, but the education disparity was becoming more obvious.

You couldn't even be certified in ACLS or PALS here, as your LPN scope wouldn't allow pushing the drugs required. It's gotta be so hard when you've DONE that before, but the simple fact is that times have changed....and we've gotta keep up with them to stay in the game.