schools that offer LPN in Central Luzon, Tarlac???

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · May 20, 2008

Moved to the LPN Nursing Student forum.

suzanne4, RN · May 21, 2008

Actually moved to the Philippine forum since it is asking about programs specifically that are located there.

suzanne4, RN · May 21, 2008

Just to add in to the mix here in response to your question:

Be aware that even with US citizenship, you are going to have problems finding a job in a hospital setting in most states; they are now going to phasing out the LPN/LVN role and using only the RN.

And the other issue is that since the Philippine government does not offer licensure for that training there, you may have problems with some of the states in the US as well in terms of licensure.

It is very hard to teach a program when it is not even recognized by the country where you are taking it in for licensure there.

Honestly, you would be better just cutting your losses and coming back to the US. You are not going to get credit for the one year that you have done with either the LPN program there or to come back here.

Daly City RN · May 21, 2008

I am a U.S. citizen, first year BSN student in CLDH in Tarlac City. However, I am in a hurry to go back to the U.S. and would like to take LPN instead. Any schools in Tarlac City or nearby towns that you know of?

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You are in a hurry to come back to the U.S. and you would like to take the LPN program instead? Just come back to the U.S. and don't waste your time and money taking the LPN program over there!

I was the charge nurse last night in our unit and it was the usual busy busy shift. During a rare "bathroom break" I saw a flier posted on the wall in our staff bathroom and the message on it was to encourage some of the remaining LVN's in our huge medical center here in the San Francisco Bay Area to sign up for the "I.V. Team" that is being formed. Our hospital is trying to find positions for the remaining LVN's in our Med-Surg. units so that by 2010 all of our LVN's will not be working in our in-patient units, and only RN's will be taking care of the in-patients in our hospital.

Many of the veteran LVN's have found positions in other departments, recently several of them are being used to deliver medications from the pharmacy to the in-patient units until other positions will become available for them.

Our hospital has not recruited LVN's for several years now and this mirrors the trend in acute care hospitals in many SF Bay Area hospitals. With technology advancing and patient acuities continuing to rise, a busy RN finds it very difficult as it is to take care for his/her own patients let alone to "cover" for the patients of the LVN partnered with this RN. With the current trend of an "All RN" team, RN's can devote all of his/her time and energy just for the patients assigned to them. LVN's looking for higher paying jobs in acute care hospitals are left in the cold.

I feel sorry for the LVN's in our hospital, many of whom are good nurses, but times have changed. I'm glad that many of our LVN's are back in school attending RN programs. Soon, I believe that other states in the U.S.A. will follow California's example and will employ only RN's in their acute care hospitals to take care of their in-patients.

With all due respect to the nurses working in convalescent hospitals (or Skilled Nursing Facilities) , these places are less challenging if you want to acquire first rate nursing experience but they still employ and hire LVN's, but the pay rates in convalescent hospitals are much less compared to acute care hospital jobs, jobs that are now becoming less available for LVN's.

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