mgordonlvn

AMEN!!! Preach on!!!

Your profile says that you are an LPN...

from torchwood registered user thanked 1 times in 1 post join date: dec 2006 posts: 13 today, 01:33 pm re: "lpns should be done away with altogether" the lpn is a better trained cna that gets stuck doing rn level work at times. they need to increase cna training and pay them better, cut out lpn like several countries have, and have cna's and rn's just my opinion are you kidding? you really feel this way?

I maintain: experience is the best teacher. I agree that it is soooo much more than checking the right answer box. My point is this: given the choice between a seasoned LVN and a new RN...if my baby's life were at stake, I'd take the LVN. I support battlefield promotion, can you tell?

This is another area where we are feeding on our own... If I, the lowly LVN, can correctly demonstrate to a competent assessor all of the skills that RN students must learn, and pass the NCLEX-RN, then I certainly must possess the knowledge that a formally trained candidate possesses. Regardless of the source of your knowledge...if you know it, you know it. :trout: to the person who suggested that RN's should be able to take a test and be doctors. Same principle. If you know it, you had to learn it somewhere. The crap they ask on boards is not stuff you know inately. As far as Excelsior goes...I would take someone who demonstrates the discipline to study independently and fulfill all of their requirements(esp. CPNE) before I would trust some suburban housewife who attended the local community college because she was bored...or her husband left her...or whatever other lame scenario you can come up with. :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: Is it just me...or do those look like middle fingers?

You people are waaaaaay too uptight... If I call myself a glow-in-the-dark 3 Musketeers bar, does it make me a glow-in-the-dark 3 Musketeers bar? (This is a rhetorical question. Because, obviously, to be a glow-in-the-dark 3 Musketeers bar, it takes quite a bit more effort and training than just being a regular 3 Musketeers.)

Can I get an AMEN for mah sistah?

We can join the NLN! $90/year! Ladies and Gentlemen, the time has come to pull together and fortify our position! We are professional, knowledgeable, and capable NURSES! I endured more clinical hours than my ADN counterparts. I crammed just as many didactic hours into 1 year. ...and...I was a working single parent. I completely comprehend my current position in the chain of command. However, when I have the piece of paper that will allow me to practice as a Registered Nurse, I will use my position to further the cause. When I hang my BSN diploma on the wall, I will continue to do the same. When I hang my MBA-HCA diploma on the wall, I will continue to do the same...and fire those who do not share this philosophy!

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I have been an LVN in Texas for 9 years. I have worked in the OR as a scrub and anesthesia tech(one of very few Certified Anesthesia Technologists in the US) for 13 years. Upon successful completion of my NCLEX-VN, I joined AORN(Association of Operating Room Nurses) and began studying for the CNOR(Certified Nurse in the Operating Room) certification exam. I spent close to $200 on exam-prep materials from AORN and other sources. A justifiable expense since the facility I worked for would pay a $2/hr certification bonus. I studied until I new the material inside/out and upside-down. I sent in my exam registration form(which made no mention of an RN-licensure requirement). Two weeks later I received a nice(read: condescending) hand-written note and my cashier's check saying that I could not take the exam because I was ONLY an LVN.:angryfire Subsequently, I let my AORN membership lapse... Before this year's Congress in New Orleans, my director asked if I would be interested in joining AORN...apparently, they are having some sort of membership drive. I decided that since I am nearing completion of my LVN-to-RN transition coursework that I would take a look at it. I go to the web-site and WHATTAYAKNOW!?! They have changed the name of the organization to Association of periOperative Registered Nurses?!?!?!?! And...now you cannot even join as an LVN!!! I am sick of listening to RNs complain about "lesser educated members of the nursing field", then turning to us for help when they can't find their butts with both hands, a flashlight, and the AORN Best Practice guidelines for "Finding Your Own Butt!" Seems to me that there is a concerted effort by many nursing groups to force the more cost-effective LVN/LPN into extinction simply to preserve the purity of their clubs. I think this has happened before...Zieg Hiel! Ich bin LVN!