phasing out?

[CantWait2Nurse]

Hello

I am six weeks into LPN school and when ever people see me in uniform and ask what I do, they tell me hospitals are going to start phasing LPNs out. These are people in healthcare that tell me this? If this happens would be be grandfathered in or would we be forced to all go to LTCs? Would the company pay for us to get our RN? Would all LPNs even want to be an RN? What do you guys think? Have you seen heard the same things?

[kstec, LPN]

I'm a recent LPN graduate and I am just curious if the RN's were always held accountable for LPN's or did the accountable/liability just increase over the years. I guess my question is were LPN's able to be more independent in the past? I can completely understand if everything ultimately falls on the RN, but are we as LPN's also responsible? We do carry our own liabilty insurance. I was asked to come work on the only unit in our hospital and I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I felt as though not only would I be intimidated because I was a new graduate but also because I wasn't really wanted there anyway. I definitely know that I am not a RN but would like to be given a chance to do what is in my scope of practice. Oh well maybe things will eventually change.