Does your hospital have care partners?

[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?

[suzanne4, RN]

Where are you located? I doubt that it is an LPN, as they can administer medications. Sounds more like a second year nursing student.:)

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

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.

[Nurse Ratched, RN]

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.

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

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?"

[deanaRN]

I am looking here at AR Childrens Hospital, scroll down about two positions. https://secure.archildrens.org/scripts/Postings/nursingapplication.asp

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

The description sounds like an aide to me.

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

"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.

[deanaRN]

Thank you :)