American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The South Carolina (SC) Board of Nursing oversees licensure renewal for all active LPN, RN and APRN licenses across SC every other year in even years. The key question is do we have the supply we need to satisfy the demand as nurses retire and/or leave the profession.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The floor team consists of a nurse and either an LPN or CNA, with the former handling the nursing duties at the bedside and the latter doing tasks that don’t require an RN. Teaming a nurse with an LPN/CNA, she says, enables the nurse to work at the top of his or her license. Trinity’s three-person strategy is unique.

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Telemedicine LPN Chief Nursing Officer Care coordination 116

Health Leaders | Nursing

JANUARY 29, 2024

Many veteran nurses are retiring and taking their knowledge and experience with them. The funds can be used for program development, direct LPN/LVN to RN student support, curriculum and partnership development, and for recruiting faculty and clinical preceptors.

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Nurse Shortage LPN Preceptors Licensing 103

Post University

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

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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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

When you started, you may have earned your LPN, RN, or BSN, and you moved forward into your career with all sorts of hopes, goals, and aspirations. During the many years of your career, you may have chosen to pursue various certifications , joined workplace committees, and accumulated countless skills and competencies.

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Nurse Educator Education LPN Retirement 52

Nurse.com

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We watched as the first wave of nurses opted to retire early or leave the profession to maintain their sanity. LPN and ADN nursing programs dried up due to the push for nurses to achieve higher education in the field. Healthcare employers are now welcoming ADN nurses and LPNs to staff all facilities.

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Nurse Shortage LPN Work-Life Balance Nurse Educator 89

Nurse.com

JUNE 1, 2023

I worked as a nursing assistant for a couple of years, then I was off to LPN school. After finishing the program, I continued to work at the nursing home as an LPN and kept my eye on the RNs, observing and learning until I got my chance to become one of them. My experience as an LPN made clinicals easy.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 17, 2023

Teresa Practically, I’m so close to retirement, I need to maximize my superannuation. Mandy I’ve been a nurse for 16 years, CNA LPN CPhT to RN. Emotionally, I like my job and the people I care for and work with. Physically, not sure how much longer I can last. Running out of energy.

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Scrubs

JANUARY 31, 2023

Every night in a retirement home, 30 of them are in a transitional bed care unit waiting for long term care. Rosana In med/surg, I had 15 pts and I worked with a great LPN who had 15 also. We had 8 to start the 12-hour shift, but admitted 2. One was on continuous dialysis. I think we lost 2 by the morning. I have PTSD from that night.

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Board Vitals - Nursing

APRIL 11, 2024

A significant portion of these openings is likely to emerge because of the need to fill positions vacated by retiring professionals. Am I Too Old to Become a Nurse? If you can manage the physical responsibilities that come with nursing, age should not be a barrier to pursuing a career in nursing later in life.

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Career Change LPN Licensing Self-Care 104

Health Leaders | Nursing

JANUARY 20, 2023

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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Nurse.com

MAY 11, 2022

Nurses have many points of entry into the nursing profession — and, ultimately, to a Doctor of Nursing Practice, including entering as licensed practical nurses (LPN) or licensed vocational nurses (LVN). Another concern is that the nursing workforce is aging and retiring, creating shortages in practice, education, and leadership. “We

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Education APRN Nurse Practitioner LPN 83

Minority Nurse

JULY 12, 2023

I earned my LPN in 2011, then passed the NCLEX-RN in 2012 after graduating from Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She worked as an elementary school teacher in Pueblo, Colorado for many years before retiring. I work in the world of the ‘dying.’ How long have you worked in the nursing field?

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American Nurse

JULY 10, 2023

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. I started my career in nursing as an LPN [licensed practical nurse] and then became an RN.” I think I’m in year 36 [of practice].

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Daily Nurse

MAY 11, 2023

As someone who ’ s gone back for more, I started with the LPN certificate and then ADN, and I initially thought a nurse was a nurse. And then also along the lines, it ’ s not just the letters behind your name but the quality of education. That ’ s what you ’ re learning in the program.

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Chief Nursing Officer Nurse Practitioner Education Retirement 98

Minority Nurse

MAY 11, 2023

As someone who ’ s gone back for more, I started with the LPN certificate and then ADN, and I initially thought a nurse was a nurse. And then also along the lines, it ’ s not just the letters behind your name but the quality of education. That ’ s what you ’ re learning in the program.

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Chief Nursing Officer Nurse Practitioner Education Retirement 98

EDNurseasauras

AUGUST 10, 2021

Now that I'm retired, I don't miss the constant struggle of trying to do the job that I knew could, and should, be done. One upperclassman we revered had managed to challenge the LPN exam before that loophole was closed forever. My staff consisted of an LPN, 3 aides and an orderly, all under the age of 29. That is a tough one.

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Nurse.com

MAY 23, 2022

NAPLN members can access certification programs, attend an annual conference, and apply for multiple awards , including the Lilian Kuster Award and LPN of the Year award, along with other recognition for themselves and fellow nurses. Medical/Surgical. Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN). The Army Nurse Corps Association, Inc.

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Professional Development Continuing Education Promotion Leadership 59