Re: Does anyone regret becoming an LPN?

[lacy99]

yes IM sad at the ten grand I owe to loans and struggle to find a decent job......yea another nursing home no thanks the risk is too great, I do visiting nursing which is good but again limited. In school we trained for areas well NEVER get into. I graduated with a academic award in excellance highest scores in maternity nursing, what a joke............all that studying for nothing, :crying2:Im reminded all the time Im just an LPN the bottom.

[Auntiegrade_Amnesia]

"JUST an LPN." I wish I had a nickle for every time I've heard that expression. I've heard it from doctors, nurse managers, RNs, patients, patient's families, and most frequently from other LPN's. If I had to choose only one regret, for the sake of this discussion, it would be that someone, sometime, referred to one of us as "just"...and it stuck.