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ADN is a Registered Nurse!

Read this quote: "ADN programs prepare nurses for basic bedside clinical care of patients, which is slowly moving into the realm of the nursing assistant or the licensed practice nurse," said Wagner.

The only reason a RN would fall into any realm of nursing assistant or LPN is because RN's are trained to do all their duties and more. ADN or BSN is an RN!

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I'm not opposed to higher degrees, no one is. I, myself am going for my Master's degree. Unfortunately, public comments such as "ADN programs prepare nurses for basic bedside clinical care of patients, which is slowly moving into the realm of the nursing assistant or the licensed practice nurse," said Wagner. This puts ADN programs down, essentially putting ADN REGISTERED NURSES down. The extra year of nursing an ADN has to do is in management. That's what RN-BSN programs teaches an ADN majority of classes are in public health and Management.

With that said, what do you guys think?

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I think what he is saying is that LPNs and cnas are slowly being able to do more bedside care than previously.

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Specializes in DOU, Tele, Surgery, ICU.
I think what he is saying is that LPNs and cnas are slowly being able to do more bedside care than previously.

Maybe I have it wrong, but it states "ADN programs prepare nurses for basic bedside clinical care of patients, which is slowly moving into the realm of the nursing assistant or the licensed practice nurse,". It seems to me that it says ADN programs are slowly moving into the realm of the nursing assistant or the licensed practice nurse.

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Yea I could read it both ways. I think it means it teaches basic bedside care and the basic bedside care is slowly evolving into things a lpn or CNA could do.

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I think the author is trying to say that basic bedside clinical care of patients is slowly moving into the realm of nursing assistants and licensed practical nurses.

Basic bedside clinical care is already within the realm of anybody with an RN license, regardless of the type of degree or diploma held by the RN. The author simply used poor wording to indicate that bedside clinical care is now inching into the sphere of CNAs and LPNs as time passes.

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