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hello everyone! i will be starting lpn school in august and would like to know what specialties do you work in. i'm interested in l&d but do they hire lpn's and is it "expected" for you to become a rn one day? :mad:

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Specializes in Onco, palliative care, PCU, HH, hospice.

Hi, congratulations on getting accepted into nursing school! It's a wild and bumpy ride but hold and tight and you'll do fine :) I've been an LPN for only a year so I'm not quite a veteran like many others here, but I work on a Medical Telemetry floor we take a wide variety of pts but what makes our floor a little more specialized is that we take all the end of life care and palliative care pts. As far as your aspirations to work in L&D it really depends on your area, where I live LPN positions are hard to come by in L&D most of the ones I know work in post partum and work as scrub nurses for C-Sections. As far as being expected to become an RN there are expectations from co-workers and manager to become an RN which I am in the process of doing. I'm working on general courses right now and will be bridging next summer. Good luck to you!

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Specializes in LTC.

I work on a 60 bed Alzheimer's/behavior unit. Never a dull moment here!

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thanks medicallpn. is there anything i could or should do now to prepare for school? was school hard? i just can't wait to start!:D

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Specializes in Onco, palliative care, PCU, HH, hospice.

My best advice for you to prepare for school, is to take time and pamper yourself, spend as much time with your family and friends, kick back and do activities and hobbies you enjoy because once you start nursing school it'll be even more difficult to do these things.

Nursing school is rough, the coursework is very intense, don't get behind read ahead to the next couple chapters to become familiar with the material before lecture and avoid missing school at all costs missing one day lecture or clinicals can really be devastating. As rough as it is, it is totally worth it! You are going to learn SO much, you're going to do great!!!

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I work at a nursing home.

The lion's share of L&D hospital positions in my metro area are filled by RNs due to the medications they must push that LVNs cannot, the initial assessments they must complete that LVNs are not allowed to perform, and the wider scopes of practice that they occupy.

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