I think that schools that churn out nurses are good and bad. Good because if we decided all nurses need to have a University education we would have a great shortage... so going that route will probably never work out. Bad because being a LPN in one year seems too soon (I am one). I think to really BE a nurse you need more education then the basics in everything thrown into a year. My school was 6 week long classes. 6 weeks mental health, 6 weeks med/surg 1, 6 weeks med/surg 2.. etc... I do not think that is a very good education and honestly forgot a lot of what I learned because I had to cram it all in so fast. So it has it's benefits: we need nurses at all levels (LPN, RN, BSN). Having a BSN work the cart at a nursing home for 17$ an hour would never fly, so we NEED LPNs. But they are bad because it's too fast and too easy, and I am new to nursing but I have already seen the difference in understanding of nursing between LPNs I work with and RNs I work with....
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