I need help!!! I recieved my LVN in Texas in October 2009, Moved to Grand County in Colorado, applied and recieved my LPN in Colorado in February 2010. Nobody in this county will hire an LPN. There are lots of jobs for CNAs and RNs but nothing for LPNs for unless I travel 200- 250 miles.
Am I only one with this problem?
I mean I feel like by the time I actually get a nursing job I will have forgotten anything I learned in nursing school.
Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
Here in California if someone wanted to work in LTC it is still a good route for an LVN(LPN). The medtechs here can pass meds but they can't assess patients, do admissions, send people to the hospital or do treatments.
Things were very different when I graduated long ago. Every hospital hired LVNs. Sometimes people get a bit upset when I caution people about the increasing narrowing of job opportunities for LPN, LVNs in acute care, but I have to be honest. I would definately go the RN route if I were starting out today.
I am seeing it here in Delaware as well. NO LPN jobs other than desperate nursing homes and even then it is usually night shifts. All the good LPN jobs are being taken over by Medical Assistants who, by the way, are being referred to as nurses. I work in a primary care office with an MA who makes many, many mistakes and yet is referred to as "the other nurse." It really horrifies me that our dear licenses are now taken for granted. The ads in healthcare here read "looking for LPN/MA...blah blah blah" as if we are one and the same. The only problem is the MA's are snatching up the jobs because they are getting paid less. I've been an LPN for 16 years and am exhausted from trying to earn respect. I'm leaving the field altogether and getting my BA in another field. Good luck and my heart is truly with my fellow LPN's who find themselves getting boxed in further.
Well actually,in the south part of usa they hire lpns over rns,esp in ltc. I have seen the ads "lpns only" and no rns need apply. But in Nj,there are no jobs for lpns,which I'm guessing maybe because of the influx of foreign born nurses there and that's contributing to employers being picky?
It must be related to where you are in the country. Here in the south LPNs are very high in demand. Yes, they hire MAs here but MAs cannot give out controlled substance medications. Where I work the majority are LPNs.
nursel56
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Here in California if someone wanted to work in LTC it is still a good route for an LVN(LPN). The medtechs here can pass meds but they can't assess patients, do admissions, send people to the hospital or do treatments.
Things were very different when I graduated long ago. Every hospital hired LVNs. Sometimes people get a bit upset when I caution people about the increasing narrowing of job opportunities for LPN, LVNs in acute care, but I have to be honest. I would definately go the RN route if I were starting out today.