Hi everyone. New Grad Prospective RN here (pending Licensure).
Got a job. Yay. Job offered was Graduate Nurse. So far so good.
Went in for paper work. Job title they had me sign was for Graduate Practical Nurse.
Says I will report to LPN, RN blah blah, says I must have an LPN License.
Kicked up the issue to the big boss, she says it was a mistake. Comeback and sign the right job title.
Went back in, HR meets me at desk, a little snarling , eye rolling, obviously not happy. She says the job title I signed is the right one. She knows of no other job title for new grad nurses.
This does nnot seem right. alarm bells are going off in my head.
Once I start, if I am on the floor and do something out of scope of an LPN, say teaching for example and I am wrong and it goes south, in my mind the hospital will be wide open for liability and I will be open to liability as well.......
Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Also did I mention terrified??? Feeling very terrified as well LOL
:hug: We're here for you! HR is wrong. You are not a Graduate Practical nurse....but no matter you will be held to the standards that your license/applied licensed gives you. I would just go back to your manager and say HR didn't seem very happy and claims the paperwork is just fine. HR barely knows the difference between licensure it a clerical error.
You have the job and the money......so Congratulations!!!!:yelclap:
The job is great. The money is just the result of a flawed society that somehow came up with a flawed concept (money) that in evolutionary time....will ultimately be humanity's downfall.....but that is another topic lol....
My prayer is that I do not harm any patients and that I can make a difference in at least one life.
I know that sounds very cliche.....but its real.....
I walked out of there last night and I held the door for an elderly lady as she had her hands full of stuff. She was smiling and I said wow you seem really happy.
She said that she was and that her husband was getting discharged. He is still in bad shape but stable enough to go home. She mentioned the doctors and nurses and as she did tears started coming down her face.....
I think many of you (us soon hehe) sometimes forget the profound difference that you/we can make in the lives of these folks......
I am gonna treat every patient like they are my momma......
If nothing else my patients will know that they are loved and that I care about them......robots can do all the tasks...but they will never be able to do that......
hr is more than anything a clerical position. they have no clinical knowledge and often no knowledge of nurse licensure acts.
the hr lady at a hospital i worked at was a nurse with 20 years of experience. she had a great nose for new hires and could answer all your questions. she was a pillar of that department.
Do you have a license? If you don't the hospital is not the only one open for a law suit. It's call practicing without a license, if they want to consider you as licensed. You will be responsible. Even when you get your RN license. You, as a nurse, are responsible for everything you tell the patient. You can be sued. I hope I misread your post.
You don't have to be licensed yet to be hired as a graduate nurse, hence the title "Graduate Nurse." You can assess and care for patients, but another RN needs to cosign your charting and pass meds for you.
OP what ever title they hire you under, just know that you will always be held to your highest license. Which means if your title is LPN but you have a RN license you will be held accountable for RN scope of practice.
I was offered an interview as a LPN and I have both a LPN and RN license. If I would have taken the job I would have still been held to my RN lic.
OAN: Congrats on the new job!!! What area of nursing will you be working?
I understand what you are saying Merlyn. Totally. I appreciate you taking of your time to make sure I dont get in trbl :)
Glad that I can help GN's. Somebody has to take over, when I finally leave this business, and join the rest of the headbangers at The New Jersey Hospital for The Mentally Bewilder.
For the sake of clarification, some states require a temporary license to practice as a GN (graduate nurse). In my state, the temp license is good for 90 days or until the grad takes NCLEX. If they pass NCLEX, they become an RN. If they fail, the license lapses and they have to work as a tech or PCA or CNA (if they stay at the facility) until they pass.
OP, I hope you can get this straightened out quickly and sail through NCLEX on the first try.
hey guys!! the job is working in an LTAC. Most folks are on vents, hav trachs, chest tubes, wounds, etc......
as for the NCLEX, the ATI predictor thingy says I have a 99 percent chance to pass on the first try. I hope ATI is right lol
Go for it, an RN with trach/Vent experience can write their on ticket here in what we call God's Waiting Room. They are going to training you. Fantastic!
Go for it, an RN with trach/Vent experience can write their on ticket here in what we call God's Waiting Room. They are going to training you. Fantastic!
Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN
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:hug: We're here for you! HR is wrong. You are not a Graduate Practical nurse....but no matter you will be held to the standards that your license/applied licensed gives you. I would just go back to your manager and say HR didn't seem very happy and claims the paperwork is just fine. HR barely knows the difference between licensure it a clerical error.
You have the job and the money......so Congratulations!!!!:yelclap: