jake the nurse

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1. Are LPN's being phased out?

   jake the nurse replied to JSlovex2's topic in LPN/LVN

   I believe it to be relevant to the area that you are working. For example a vast majority of the units at the hospital I work at run at a typical ratio of 2 RPNs and 10 RNs per shift. But some floors also run with 11 RPNs and 1 RN all depends on the ...

2. Scope of Practice & Delegation

   jake the nurse replied to IdahoBlues's topic in LPN/LVN

   To be honest if you are pulling the medications, signing, and delivering to the room with the CNA you might as well just administer them yourself considering you have done 90% of the task. Delegate other tasks that can be completed soley by the CNA t...

3. Leave Nursing??

   jake the nurse replied to Tellis17's topic in LPN/LVN

   I'd say you need to branch out and experience different areas of nursing. I have been working as an RPN for 3 years as well and in that time I have found areas of nursing that I truly hated, but I gained knowledge and experience from those positions ...

4. Would you consider your time In LPN school as experience?

   jake the nurse replied to Emireth's topic in LPN/LVN

   Experience is experience in my opinion, if you were working to the capacity of a nurse then I would say it is relevant. When I graduated I applied for every job posting even if it required multiple years experience. My resume at the time consisted on...

5. RPN pay scale

   jake the nurse replied to jake the nurse's topic in International

   Yea I am hoping that Kingston General Hospital is hiring RPN's when I get out of school worst case end up in an old folks home until they begin hiring.

6. RPN pay scale

   jake the nurse replied to jake the nurse's topic in International

   thank you both for the quick responses and helpful towards me making my ultimate decision :). Another question who hard is it finding work as an RPN do the majority of hospitals take RN's over RPN's or is it a split. Just want to try and make the sma...

7. RPN pay scale

   jake the nurse posted a topic in International

   I am currently looking into seeing if RPN is really a good career choice for me, I know that the starting pay is typically from 19-24$ per hour depending what province or what institution you work at. What I really want to know is 20 years down the r...