Held to the standards of your highest licensure

You hear this referenced so many times as a primary reason not to take a position that requires less than your highest license.

I'm curious, does anyone know of anyone who had a negative situation occur while working in a lesser capacity than their license that resulted in consquences to their license??

I hear it repeated over and over as a reason for someone not to take a particular position. I just have never heard of even a friend of a friend of a friend experiencing anything like that. I don't ever recall hearing anything like that happening , no news accounts ...nothing.

I'm just not so sure that it is really enough of a legitimate concern that it should prevent someone from taking a job they otherwise find attractive.

I think, for myself, I probably wouldn't worry about it if there was something I wanted to do. Even if I was mid-career.

I've been out of the clinical world for a long time now but still remain in the field. When I'm ready to chuck it all, I think I will join a home care bed and bath team :) :)

It's 1:1, quality time, low stress and responsibility.

Just1nRN · Apr 13, 2011

The best example that I can give is that sometimes, when we are short on CNAs and we have an available RN, the RN will have to work as a CNA. The thing is, even though you are working as a CNA, RNs are always held to a higher level of accountability. We have CNAs that will not report a low oxygen saturation, high or low blood pressures, and so on, and they are really never held accountable. If an RN is working as a CNA, and they took vital signs and failed to report something like that immediately to the patient's actual RN, you can bet that management would be all over it.