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I’m tired of the disrespect towards ADN prepared nurses & LVNs/LPNs. Stop The Stigma & #dismantlenursehierarchies
After speaking up for the community of nurses who have gone the ADN route, I’ve received DMs & comments about how I took “the easy route.” How I must not “care about patients,” because I didn’t “seek further education.”
Me confused looking into the distance as I type up a discussion post for this online RN to BSN program I’m one semester away from completing that has not impacted my clinical acumen in any sense. 
LPNs & LVNs are valid. They are working in spaces that you may not even realize exist because they don’t directly impact your access to care. They’re working in our ERs, public health facilities, home health, outpatient centers, prisons, SNFs, LTCs, ALFs...etc.
They are vaccinating folks right now... Without LPNs/LVNs the public health sector as we know it & ESPECIALLY for our most underserved populations the care provided to our elderly would collapse.
We need to step out of these privileged bubbles & think about the folks who do not have access to large universities or state colleges. Who for many reasons a four year program on top of undergraduate courses is just not possible.
The lack of respect I have seen for ADN nurses when they ARE registered nurses, practicing in the SAME capacity as nurses with their BSN is upsetting. The lack of respect for LVNs/LPNs is even more prevalent.
The LPNs/LVNs in my RN program were the most knowledgeable & the most prepared clinically. They were who I went to when I felt unsure for an exam. Knowledge & experience in nursing is obtained with each patient encounter. We obtain knowledge every single hour that we work.
What we need to do is work on respecting one another as professionals and not falling into these elitist hierarchical categories. Rant over. #dismantlenursehierarchies
