UPGRADING to LPN
Hi ... would like to know the insights from current LPN's. How satisfied are you with your financial income ? Are you able to clock some overtime on every paychecks ? If so what health settings are you working on ? Would you have made some other career choices instead of taking lpn if you knew things before that you know now ? I know mental & physicial exhaustion is always a downside in Healthcare, but anything else that you can think of that is solid enough reason to choose / decline LPN career at this point ?
Myself, am a CHW / Care Aide in BC who is desperate to upgrade myself to something better. With only $2-3 wage differences between CHWs & LPNs, is it worth taking the LPN program which costs 18 grand minimum ? Also CHW could always clock some overtime. Idk if thats the case with LPN.
Please share your instincts and what you think of my decision for upgrading? Any other health care choices you recommend that costs only 2 years of college programs?
For me RN program + 4 years schooling + 60 grand bank loan is not in the equation.