can lpn be adon

I dont know if it is legal but i have seen 2 lpn adons here in texas

I have had several LPN ADON and LPN DON at the LTC's in Washington state.

I was an adon at a LTC facility.

I am employed at a large 205-bed long-term care facility that has one DON and three ADONs. The DON is an RN, whereas the three ADONs are all LVNs. I am in Texas, and it is very common around here for long-term care ADONs to be licensed as LVNs.

Most of the LTC's I am aware of the ADON is a LVN. It helps to know the LTC area well and be familiar with policy and procedures of your facility. My personal opinion is you need to have been a LTC nurse first and get the inner workings of the joint. Find out what your job will be cause a lot of ADON's must do staffing be on call and all that great junk.... I also would not accept a ADON job if there was not a permanent DON.

Please, jamangel, share with me how you moved up as an LPN. I ask this because I was always under the impression that one had to be an RN in order to be an ADON or DON. Did you have another degree in management? And (if this is not too personal), were you paid the same rate as an RN that held the same position was? Again, if that is a personal question, don't answer...this just peaks my curiousity.

Thanks!

I shall add that I would never want to be working as an ADON with only an LVN license because the pay is so limited. At my facility, our three ADONs receive a salary of $45,000 per year, which is not a great deal of money when one takes into consideration the enormous amount of work they are responsible for doing.

They often work 60 hours weekly, but never receive a dime of overtime or bonus pay since they receive a fixed salary. They are on-call in case one of their nurses does not show up for work. In addition, they frequently take the fall if one of their nurses messes up. They must also be in good standing with the management clique at work, or else they'll be demoted. All three of the ADONs at my facility are LVNs with no additional education or college degrees. They simply know the facility's protocol and were promoted after 2 years of being floor nurses.