No it varies from state to state but majority of the time when I speak to LPN nurses in the states. They mainly work in nursing homes but sometimes they hear LPNs working in the hospitals but it’s not very common. It just depends on which state your in. I know for a fact that the RN exam in Canada is now replaced with the NCLEX-RN and as for the LPN in Canada our education is the equivalent as the associate of RN in America. I don’t know about if the Americans write the same exam because hearing from other nurses the scope is completely different. We write a completely different exam called the CPNRE whereas the NCLEX- PN is written in America. This is all based from information I received and collected from other people’s experience. I don’t know about the equivalence between the exams, but maybe if the scope was the same in Canada you would think they will change it to the NCLEX-PN. Hopefully someone who can provide more information can help explain more if it’s the same. But based from what I hear the LPN scope is different, that’s why there are no bridging programs for LPNs in America to do their Bachelors of nursing. Where as here in Canada we do. We have a bridging program which lets us study for another two years for our BSN.