Getting a Head Start on Practical Nurse Training Programs. Education Letter (12/29/2010)
...requirements in their own ways and usually new nursing students or nurses with out-of-state license find it difficult finding these pieces and bits of information to make decision on training programs, acquiring continuing education credits or attending...

2 hospitals to drop licensed practical nurses; The changes at Mercy and Unity hospitals are meant to improve care, but unions say the remaining nurses will be stretched too thin.(NEWS) Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) (11/21/2005)
...Writer All 90 licensed practical nursing jobs at Mercy...remove the licensed practical nurses (LPNs) was...receive one year of training, compared with at least...to become registered nurses. The phaseout will...effective to have a licensed ...

Licensed practical nurses face tough choices with layoffs in Spokane, Wash. The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) (8/18/2004)
...been a licensed practical nurse at Sacred...as a registered nurse takes three years...anywhere for licensed practical nurses are poor. Hospitals...average registered nurse made $48,090...made $31,440. ...

Would revival of LPN Association help Tennessee?(licensed practical nurse) Tennessee Nurse (3/22/2006)
...in support of new LPN training programs. Some years...Association of Licensed Practical Nurses. Some have raised...need for registered nurses, qualified people to...additional licensed practical nurses, particularly in ...

INVESTING IN THE FUTURE; ST. CAMILLUS HELPS NURSE ASSISTANTS BECOME LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES; PARTICIPANTS GET PAID WHILE THEY GO TO SCHOOL.(Business) The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) (5/21/2002)
...become a licensed practical nurse. While she...in-house LPN training program developed...response to the nurse shortage plaguing...CNAs, who help nurses by providing nonmedical...We're creating nurses who will be a ...

MONEY LACK MAY SHUT DOWN ALBANY PRACTICAL NURSE PROGRAM.(Local) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (6/19/1987)
...1,000 licensed practical nurses over the past...that once provided training for LPNs are shifting...trained registered nurses. LPNs receive up...coordinator of the Albany practical nurse program. Registered ...

Hillsborough County, Fla., Schools Add Licensed Practical Nurse Programs. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (6/11/2004)
...hospital hallways for a nurse to tend to a loved one...isn't enough room in training programs. Help is on...students to become licensed practical nurses by the time they graduate...and 9,000 registered nurses each year through ...

LPNs to RNS. (licensed practical nurse seeking certification as registered nurses)(Inside AVA) Techniques (1/1/1998)
...in place, a licensed practical nurse (LPN) pursuing certification as a registered nurse (RN) many times would...that it reflects the training needs for nursing...Glenda Felt was not a nurse, which was a big plus...tool for clarifying the ...

You need practical skills to nurse, not a degree.(Letters) Daily Mail (London) (10/21/2011)
...unless a trained nurse has actually seen...assistants who have some training, but insufficient...supervised by trained nurses. A nurse sitting at a computer...all in the trained nurse's code of conduct. Student nurses I've ...