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nurse T. thank you for that reply. All I was looking for information, not a debate. I wholeheartedly agree with you. I would like to work with a nice nurse, the letters behind her name dont matter. thanks:roll

Well thank you for that reply. I was trying to explain that an LPN does not go to school as long as an Rn, but, the programs here are 15 months and the adn program is 24 months. When we do clinicals, it is 5 days a week with a patient load of about 4. We dont have the luxury of 1 patient. In the facility I work in we do have alot of LPN's, but are expected to take care of our patients to the fullest. This is to include calling our own docs, and basically total care. We carry and average patient load of about 10-13 patients on a normal day. The only thing we dont do is take off orders and put in care plans. This was not meant to be a debate about lpn vs rn, but I get the same reply wherever I bring this subject up. Thanks for your support. :roll

Well there is away to get around clinicals. If you do your program online, you spend a weekend at a designated facility and complete your clinicals in 21/2 days. This is the route I think I will take. It is more costly, but worth it. I have been a nurse on a cancer floor for 8 years, and it is a waste of time and money to have me go through clinicals. Wish me luck!

I only have one comment about your discussion. I agree with most of what was said, but, MRSA and VRE can be isolated to the respiratory tract and then it can be airborne. Universal precautions must be used and waiting till the end of the day can help prevent you from losing that surgery room all day.

You missed the first part of my discussion. One of the replys stated that an RN's clinicals were different than an LPN'S clinicals. I have been an LPN for 11 years and yes the RN's do some bedside but mostly charge the floor. I am looking for an RN program that does not have clinicals. I will be taking the program online. :roll

Thanks for the reply to my question about an LPN to RN program without clinicals. In response to the BON'S requiring clinical time, most nurses, LPN or RN, at least in my facility, work side by side and perform the same tasks. RN courses do not even have a quarter of the clinical time as an LPN. Management is the main focus in most RN programs.

Does anyone know of an online LPN to RN program that does not require clinicals? I have been a nurse for 11 years and don't need the clinical part. Please help!:roll