Where do most LVN's/LPN's work?

[Jimmydaves]

I'd like to hear from the LVN's/LPN's regarding where do they find employment. Also, RN's can jump in on this one too. Thanks!

[SaraO'Hara]

I work in short-term rehab - lots of hip and knee replacements, hip ORIFs, and about half medical cases (s/p pneumonia, s/p urosepsis, s/p CVA).

[SharonH, RN]

Everywhere I have ever worked, I have worked with LPNs.

Acute care

Corrections

Home Health

Research

Occupational Health

Disease Management

[whipping girl in 07, RN]

We have a few LPNs that work at my hospital on the med-surg floors, but none in the ICUs. I worked with an LPN in the first ICU I worked at, but he was going to school to become an RN so our boss let him transfer in.

My mom was an LPN and she worked in the hospital, in doctor's offices, a methadone clinic, and assisted living.

The employee health nurses when I worked at Tyson were all LPNs.

[Jimmydaves]

Do you all welcome the added responsibilities that being an RN brings or are there some of you that are content to stay as an LPN/LVN and have no desire to move upward from there?

[newtress, LPN]

You may have to clarify your two part question, as at first glance it may sound a bit condecending.

[Jimmydaves]

I think if you read the question objectively that it's a genuine question without any hint of insult. I'm going through this very same thing so I would not insult any LVN/LPN or RN.