LTC owner/manager "invents" new nurse title?

[Hellllllo Nurse]

I was talking with a fellow RN friend of mine who works agency in Kansas. She did some shifts this week at a LTC facility. The owner there has decided to "retitle" all of the LPNs she has in her employ. She has had fancy, gold badges made up for each of them that read:

"LPN- Licensed Professional Nurse."

Is that legal?

These nurses are proud of their badges. Apparently, they do not realize they are being insulted. IMO, it looks as if the title Licensed Practical Nurse is not impressive enough for the owner. She has given her LPN employees a new, more important-sounding title of her own invention.

I joked with my friend- "You must have felt intimidated working with all those 'licensed professional nurses'. After all, you're only an RN!"

Do any of you find this as rediculous, deceitful and insulting as I do?

[Scavenger'sWife, RN]

Yeah, we used to joke that "LPN" was "Let's Pretend Nurse" and "RN" was "Real Nurse" and that "NA" was for "Not Anything".

But that was just among ourselves...plus I said that "RN" stood for "Really Nuts" for putting up with crud that we do....

Well, anyhoo....that Admin should be reported to the BON and/or State for her misrepresentation.

Question: Did she recently also raise the residents' monthly rates???

[nursenoelle]

Well, I like to think of myself as both practical and professional, but the most fitting revamp for me,-would be Low Paid Nurse.

Put me with the group who thinks that it is downright silly, and possibly, illegal to change the title given by the state board.

[Audreyfay]

There is an attempt at misrepresentation there. I would question how well the entire facility is being run based on this action!