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Oct 12, 2005 08:58 AM

Does your hospital have care partners?

by deanaRN

What is a care partner?
The Care Partner who under the immediate supervision of an assigned RN, provides direct patient care excluding the administration of medications or intravenous solutions.
I only worked a few weeks after getting my license nearly 7 years ago. (long story) I am planning to take a refresher course & going to work. I know I will have to take it slow, working my way up to a nursing job to give myself a chance to catch up & safely return to nursing. One of the hospitals that will hire re-entry nurses here is looking for care partners. It is not a tech, they have tech wanted ads running as well. LPN maybe?

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No. 1
from suzanne4
Old Oct 12, 2005, 09:00 AM

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Where are you located? I doubt that it is an LPN, as they can administer medications. Sounds more like a second year nursing student.
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from Marie_LPN, RN
Old Oct 12, 2005, 09:02 AM

Default Re: Does your hospital have care partners?
LPN maybe?
No, because an LPN can give meds. If they were looking for LPNs, then they would have put that in the ad.

It's probably an equivelent to a CNA II.
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No. 3
from Nurse Ratched
Old Oct 12, 2005, 09:06 AM

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Care partner is a term used by a couple of facilities here in Indiana to refer to a UAP - it's a tech, not a CNA or any other licensed/certified person. Dislike the phrase personally, but that's just me lol.
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No. 4
from Marie_LPN, RN
Old Oct 12, 2005, 09:08 AM

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When i think care partner, i think of the pt.'s spouse or main personal care taker.

I think the company is going for a non-businesslike make-it-more-personal title, however, it leaves people asking the question "what it it?"
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No. 5
from deanaRN
Old Oct 12, 2005, 09:37 AM

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I am looking here at AR Childrens Hospital, scroll down about two positions. https://secure.archildrens.org/scrip...pplication.asp
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No. 6
from Marie_LPN, RN
Old Oct 12, 2005, 09:40 AM

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The description sounds like an aide to me.
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No. 7
from Marie_LPN, RN
Old Oct 12, 2005, 09:42 AM

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"The PCT provides basic nursing care "

While the Care Partner doesn't say "basic". It seems as though the CP is somewhere between a tech and an LPN, but definately not the same as an LPN.
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No. 8
from deanaRN
Old Oct 12, 2005, 12:12 PM

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Thank you
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