-Small Hospitals (In my area, Downtown has HUGE hospitals that are all basically RN, but on the outskirts of the City there are smaller hospitals and LPN's are hired)
-Agencies (You go where the Agency say's they need you, most likely going to be a nursing home)
-Kindred Hospitals (a long-term acute care hospital, located all over, are known to hire LPN's)
I was going to add prisons/jail but someone else did! Here in CA they are going to start replacing most RNs in jail with LVN, all about saving $$ here in CA, but hey LVN pay is competitive plus the benefits are what really makes it worth it. You can earn a pension!!
Some hospitals do hire LVNS, even the big ones but they pay the least.
To add to this thread, I am so so sick of people telling me that "lpns are phasing out".... If i hear that one more time.. grrr... Its kind of making me think that this is not the right way to go.. I currently live in N.E. Ohio, and I don't know if its the are that im in that is affected.. I would be more than willing, and I plan on doing so, to get the heck out of Ohio once I am done with Lpn school.. I personally just don't want to be in school for two years straight.. I'd rather be out working, then get the rn.... I just don't know what to do anymore...
To add to this thread, I am so so sick of people telling me that "lpns are phasing out".... If i hear that one more time.. grrr... Its kind of making me think that this is not the right way to go.. I currently live in N.E. Ohio, and I don't know if its the are that im in that is affected.. I would be more than willing, and I plan on doing so, to get the heck out of Ohio once I am done with Lpn school.. I personally just don't want to be in school for two years straight.. I'd rather be out working, then get the rn.... I just don't know what to do anymore...
To my understanding it's a rumor. My teachers said they heard it in school too, and some of them we're in school in the 70's. The worst that I could ever imagine happening is making an LPN no longer obtainable.... but taking away someones LPN once they have it, I HIGHLY HIGHLY doubt that could ever happen. That would be crazy.
I am finding in minnesota alot of the jobs are going to medical assistants . It is not easy to find a job here unless it is nursing home and that is getting very competitive. Hospitals here dont hire LPNs anymore..
I am finding in minnesota alot of the jobs are going to medical assistants . It is not easy to find a job here unless it is nursing home and that is getting very competitive. Hospitals here dont hire LPNs anymore..
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I think it's really state dependent
liberty_bell
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I was going to add prisons/jail but someone else did! Here in CA they are going to start replacing most RNs in jail with LVN, all about saving $$ here in CA, but hey LVN pay is competitive plus the benefits are what really makes it worth it. You can earn a pension!!
Some hospitals do hire LVNS, even the big ones but they pay the least.