Loisanderson

All of the things you listed that the LPN can't do was the incentive that pushed me to go back for my RN years ago. I had moved to Wisconsin from another state and found out that all LPN's were nothing but glorified nursing assistants. Many things I was not permitted to do were every day tasks for me in my home state.

I worked in a hospital where certian nurses were trained do do toe nail care on diabetics. One of the nurses was diploma trained and the other was ASN. I think it depends on facility rules.

I worked night shift at a hospital in Wisconsin and we were permitted to sleep during our 1/2 hour break as long as it wasn't at the nurses station. We had a break room with an alarm clock in it and we would set the alarm for 1/2 hour periods. If we did not take our 1/2 hour break plus 2 15 minute breaks during the night, we got paid for it. I work nights in a nursing home now and we get no breaks since we are paid for 8 hours and that includes breaks/lunch. We basically eat on the job and get no breaks.

:balloons: I have had a tattoo for 9 years (Got it for my 50th BD present from my husband). Have never had any problems with it at work. In fact, I work with a lot of nurses who have them. The funniest comment I ever had about my "Ankle rose" came from an elderly man with alzheimers. He commented that I had a rose growing out of my sock. I told him my foot was dirty and it took root. He really had a chuckle about that.

Yes this is true. The law was changed last year though. I now live in Indiana but went to nursing school in ND. I can see why the BSN entry level did not work out. First off, there were very few BSN programs in state prior to the law taking effect in the early 1980's. Secondly, many nurses had to travel quite a distance in order to get BSN. From what I understood about law was that you could practice in state with your RN license provided you had graduated prior to law taking effect. Any nurse coming from out of state with ASN or Diploma had 5 years to take BSN courses. The LPN program was lenghtened to 2 years. The same went for out of state nurses wanting to practice with LPN.