As told to us in my LPN course, an LPN is most likely to be employed by a skilled long-term facility such as a nursing home, but there are of course oppurtunities in other areas you just have to look...
A trash bag is usually what I use but as someone else stated with a bed bath or something like a full bed change I tend to bring a bath blanket in with me and toss the dirty linen on top of the clean...