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by nekusar 7 days ago
Yeah, hard pass.

Nursing is a hardcore meat grinder, with companies worse than Uber taking advantage of nurses with algorithmic pricing scams, including credit checks to lowball.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/healthcare-n...

And the real money at all is in RN. There's a reason the LPN is known as "low paid nurse".

I'd rather head into the trades than nursing.

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> And the real money at all is in RN.

When people refer to nurses, they mean RN's, typically.

And yes, don't become an LPN or anything less than an RN.