Boston85

I guess if your comfortanble in your own skin thats all that should matter, after twenty years as an LPN I guess I am just that.

I wish I had a dollar for every time I felt the need to defend my occupation. I no longer feel the need. Let people think what they will. My own mother refers to me as an "LPN" instead of a nurse. I think of people like books, we can't all be best sellers but it doesn't mean we're not worth the read.

It will never matter until society stops judging people by their title instead of their ability.

I too have been an LPN for twenty years. I don't think you can replace experience with a title. A hospital close by got rid of their LPN's last March, with the attitude don't let the door hit you. They had the option to work as techs! With the nursing shortage why would you want a whole group of nurses, yes folks that's what the N in LPN stands for to disappear?