RN responsibilities in LTC - Page 3

Didn't get a chance to finish my post.
LadyJrn1:
It is RN's like you that think they are higher than anyone else that gives our profession its awful reputation. Yes, you have a right to your opinion, but it was distasteful and disrespectful. And that is my RN opinion. You definately were treated badly because of your high opinion of yourself. I gaurantee it.

Yes, I am afraid to say that LPN's and nurses aides in LTC are at the bottom of the food tree and my experiences with them have not been positive. Where I worked in LTC, these two catagories of workers have caused more interpersonal conflicts and issues between RN's and staff that people lost their jobs over it. I hate to say it, but LPN's and nurses aides will never be what RN's are but wish to be, and this is why they are not nice people in the working environment. Funny, I was an LPN before I became an RN and still to this day, I have never tried to cause trouble for any other nurse and this I am proud of. I have a high standard of ethics for myself and wish no grief on anyone else.

The RN/LPN status will never go away and RN's will always be looked at in society as a "real nurse." This is the way it is. I have had bad experiences with LPN's and nurses aides and until I meet one who is not a trouble maker and one who does not wish to be deceitful, gossip, and cause emotional and mental anguish to an RN, then I will possibly change my mind, until then my opinion of the LPN and the nurses aide is very poor.

For someone as intelligent and educated as you'd like to believe yourself to be, it seems you would know that the expression is "food chain" not food tree.

But then again, I was a writer long before I became a lowly LPN.

You were once an LPN and became an RN. My guess is that you had to go to school for an additional 9 months. And somehow that makes you superior than an LPN?

I can assure you that your ethics are no more superior than mine. It sounds like you are an extremely bitter person who has let your two-year degree go to your head. I can only hope that you run into some NP's and M.D's with the same degree of ignorance.

The RN/LPN status will never go away and RN's will always be looked at in society as a "real nurse." This is the way it is. I have had bad experiences with LPN's and nurses aides and until I meet one who is not a trouble maker and one who does not wish to be deceitful, gossip, and cause emotional and mental anguish to an RN, then I will possibly change my mind, until then my opinion of the LPN and the nurses aide is very poor.

my opinion of the LPN and the nurses aide is very poor.

I am an RN Supervisor at a LTC facility. Right now we have 114 residents, All supervisors were I work have a floor assignment with about 30 residents ( feeding tubes, numerous blood sugars, dressings, and many hospice) and are responsible for the other 114 residents in the building the other LPN's and CNA's. Going on rounds with the MD three days a week, calling the MD for new orders, admitting and discharging residents, sending to hospital. Finding coverage for all call offs, mounds of paperwork, charting, dealing with family members, and basically everything and anything that can and will happen. I would love to work in a LTC facility where the Supervisor did just that supervise. I once heard one of the MD who does rounds here make the comment that we are like a miniature hospital and not LTC because of the accute residents we have been getting. In accordance with the law at my facility there has to be an RN in the building at all times.