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Licensed Practical Nurses: Advancing, Succeeding & Achieving

American Nurse

Over 171,000 LPNs work in long-term care facilities, which is ranked as the number one field of nursing that LPNs are offered employment. Additional areas of nursing that LPNs work in are home health, retirement/assisted living facilities, psychiatric/mental health, substance abuse, and outpatient/ambulatory clinics.

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What Nursing Career Gives You the Most Bang for Your Buck?

Post University

Licensed Practical Nurse The shortest degree option is licensed practical nurse or LPN. For example, you could take a bridge program, graduate with an associate degree, and advance to RN while working as an LPN. What Do LPNs Do? Registered Nurse The next step up from an LPN is a registered nurse or RN. What Do RNs Do?

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Derek Flores

Minority Nurse

I earned my LPN in 2011, then passed the NCLEX-RN in 2012 after graduating from Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I graduated from Colorado State University in 1991 with a BS in business administration. I even had my own business for a few years. How long have you worked in the nursing field?

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The Exec: Are Your Nurses Dissatisfied? Then Change Things Up

Health Leaders | Nursing

Jill Bayless: Healthcare has eased into mostly an RN-driven staff model in hospitals and as COVID drove a lot of nurses out of hospitals, many retired, and a lot of them went traveling. Can we use a very green, brand-new RN or could we use a seasoned LPN?” HealthLeaders: What care models are being adopted to help with nurse retention?

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A Nurse Making a Difference: Nurse Alice Benjamin

Daily Nurse

And also in the back of our mind being business and finance savvy to understand that. And unfortunately, it ’ s one thing we don ’ t necessarily like about healthcare, but we ’ ve all heard the stories about ERs being so busy, and then someone dies in the hallway while waiting to be seen because they ’ re so understaffed.

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A Nurse Making a Difference: Nurse Alice Benjamin

Minority Nurse

And also in the back of our mind being business and finance savvy to understand that. And unfortunately, it ’ s one thing we don ’ t necessarily like about healthcare, but we ’ ve all heard the stories about ERs being so busy, and then someone dies in the hallway while waiting to be seen because they ’ re so understaffed.

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Nurse leaders of color: Candid conversations

American Nurse

Unfortunately, these statistics haven’t wavered much and continue at a time when nurses are retiring and leaving the workforce for various reasons, including fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. My employer is paying for me to get a master’s in business administration and a doctorate in nursing practice.