Re: Employed Nursing Student does not equal LPN Originally Posted by Fiona59 
The employed students do adminster PO, SC, and IM meds. The IV meds are all prepared by the hospital pharmacy, so those go up as well.
Different scopes are given to them by each employing facility.
But the lack of a practice permit is something that is bothering the LPN. We have our malpractice insurance issued as part of our yearly practice fees in my province. I believe employed students are working under a blanket hospital policey.
Those students are working under the license of a nurse there on the floor since they do not hold a license. So if there is a mistake, then the nurse that is covering for them is at fault as well. They can do what the facility will let them, but they are not licensed at all and have not taken an exam. If there were to be any problems, who do you think is going to be at fault and held accountable for this.
And just because a pharmacy prepares a dose, it does not mean that it is 100% correct and all of the time. Pharmacy is not 100% fool proof, any time that humans are in the line of processing, errors can occur. Computers can have issues as well.
And in all my years of nursing which are many, have never seen one pharmacy that did not make a mistake with something and it is the nurse's responsibility to be able to catch the mistake.
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