Comments on: Counting Nurses

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 07 May 2006 00:23:32 +0000

I have read all these comments
about RN/LPN?LVN.
First No one should put anyone down.
Everyone’s job is important and
NO ONe should think they are better
than anyone else. I hear frequently
Glorified Nurse Aide!
What is that? I am a Nursing
Assistant and so what does that
glorified mean? I sumply try to
do my job and yes it takes working
as a team to get the job done.
What is glorified? Just because
an assitant can do certain things??? Does that make them glorified,or just trying to do thier
part of the nursing team?
Sounds like to me there are many
ego problems and if a person does
not want to be a nurse of “ANY”
kind,go to wal-mart to work or
somewhere else or quit complaining
and putting other people down for
what they do or dont do.
I know I have been put down many times and it certainly uncalled for.
Thank you!

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 05:40:18 +0000

I have been an lvn for 30 years and the one thing that disgusts me the most is competition and arrogance.Hopefully whomever decides to become a nurse has humility,without it you can’t give good care or cooperate and be a team.Teamwork is the key,not status,as a predominately female field I think it is good to remember that many of us are single mothers.Perhaps We would all be Rn’s instead of lvn’s if We didn’t have families to support.I know some of you had the ability to be a single mom and get the Rn,too.Point is when We compete and compare We lose.The patient is the first to suffer our lack of respect for each other.Don’t forget our nurses aides and remember they break their backs and hardly get a living wage. thanks rebecca

By: totem pole bottom

totem pole bottom — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:34:03 +0000

ok folks. can the lpn’s and rn’s just be happy that they don’t have my job? i am a cna in a nursing home. lovley huh? but i love it no matter how smelly it is. and by the way thanks to all the lpn’s for giving thoes lovley laxitives and the rn’s for care planing them. that’s the thing people we should all be a team. nursing needs the cheifs and the indians, and in order for our residents to get the care they need and deserve we need to work together and stop bad mouthing each other and just do our own little jobs. yes i am about to start lpn school to make better money and so i don’t have to come home smelling like butt every day. and then i hope to get my rn so i can come home without my feet hurting every day. then i have high hopes of becoming the head honcho one day so i can lay down the law and try my best to get everyone to get along to make everybody’s life a little easier. until then though im happy keeping my residents free of bedsores and diaper rash.lol my point is folks, if you don’t like your job, do something about it, otherwise quit complaining.

By: tess

tess — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 04:04:12 +0000

i think that it is ridiculous that all of these folks are debating the differences between Lpn and Rns.The reality is Rn have a broader base to start with and Lpns begin with a base not as detailed,however it is the nurse personally who determnes what they will be.I am a Lpn and in December i hope to graduate with my asscosiates degree.I started as a nursing assistant and was fincially challenged and needed to step up and grow as much as i could at that time.I am now trying to complete my education a little more.I want to have the responsibility and the autonomy so i can provide more quality care for my patients.Even when i obtain my Rn it will depend on me as to the type of nurse i will be.

By: Dee

Dee — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 01:50:13 +0000

Hello to all of your wonderful nurses. I graduated from a Vocational-Technical school in 1989 with a Practical Nursing degree in Louisiana. I then moved to Texas and have been a practicing nurse ever since in various areas (PACU, Med-Surge, Physical Rehab., Neuro-surgery, Home Health, Private duty, Pain Management, etc.) I have worked with RN’s and LVN’s, most of whom were wonderful, hardworking and dedicated. I have also run across some who were dead-scary. I attended LVN school because it was affordable at a time when I had little money. I could not wait the 2-3 years that it would have taken me to be able to get into RN school, if I had been able to get on the waiting list. Our program was 15 months, and very intense. Our instructors were exacting (RN’s by the way), who expected nothing but our very best efforts and they allowed absolutely no non-sense. If you couldn’t do the work, you didn’t make it. We have such a shortage of nurses. Please, anyone who wants to become a nurse, do so, whether you go to an LVN or RN school. It is an incredible, sometimes thankless profession. But we are so needed. We are the eyes and ears and the front line for out patients. God Bless all nurses!!!!

By: Betsy

Betsy — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:07:39 +0000

25 Years ago, I went to school to become an LPN. I have since worked in hospitals, doctor’s offices, hospice, rehab, acute care nursing and long term care, but mostly in hospitals: med-surg, stepdown units, telemetry units and respiratory units. All have served me well and I could not go back to school, what with 3 children spaced 2 years apart AND a single Mom taking all of my pre-requisites for the RN course.
So, you think you need to supervise me? May-be you do.

By: LVN, Houston

LVN, Houston — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 14:03:42 +0000

I am an experienced, competent LVN working in Houston for 16 years.I became an LVN because I had two small children and it was the best way for me to increase my income and maintain my full time role as a mother. I am almost finished with my RN. I make more money than many RN’s. I have taken a postion in an outpatient surgery center as a pre-op/ pacu nurse, as I have done for many years. I have been questioned of my ability to sign orders, push medications, recovery a patient, etc., by a RN who was hired the same time as I was. I am apaulled and offended. I never claimed to be as “educated” as an RN, but I am a very experienced, educated LVN. I have contacted the BNE, and Texas Practice Act to learn more of the legal realm of practice of an LVN. There is a tremendous shortage of nurses in this country, and it will not get better any time soon. We must utilize our resources and work together for the betterment of our patients. P.S. … and to “Dr. Know it ALL”… there are healthcare professionals from CNA’s to Physicians that are incompetent. It is mainly your fault that caring professional nurses go home feeling unworthy and unwanted. I feel sorry for the Nurses that have to work with you, for you, in spite of you,and around you!

By: kim

kim — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:42:28 +0000

I’m just about to start school for LPN. I hope the nurses I have the opportunity to work with value everyone on their staff. Patients’ lives are too important. Maybe this is idealistic, but if everyone is more positive, life is just that much better!

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:11:12 +0000

The definition of what educational curriculm entitles one to call oneself a “nurse” rages on. The fact of the matter is– there is a great deal of difference between the two roles, RN and LPN, yet– both are vitally important to the care of patients. Stop fighting and carry on. If nurses want to see the day that they are compensated commensurate with the profession, they must act like professionals instead of as schoolchildren. We must support each other, encourage each other, and above all take good care of our increasingly sicker and sicker patients. Embrace the differences, respect the contributions of both roles and above all act like the true professionals that most of us try very hard to be.

By: Susan R.

Susan R. — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 06:49:23 +0000

I think Nurse make a tremendous differences in the lives of their patience and families.