Lpn / PCA/ GPN

[GabHen1315, LPN]

I have been working an Lpn position in a LTC facility for almost 10 years.   Due to COVID we are extremely short staffed and the schedule changes all the time.   I am scheduled my normal shift tomorrow morning.  On the schedule I am crossed off as the LPN , and listed as a PCA.  The person who is scheduled in my place on that shift and floor is a GPN.  Can they do that?   I have no problem helping out and lately I have done my duties on top of taking an assignment to help the PCA’s.   I am wondering if this has happened to anyone else and if this is okay?   I didn’t pick up the shift, it’s my normal shift I have been working for years.  

[Sour Lemon]

On 1/1/2021 at 6:59 PM, GabHen1315 said:

I have been working an Lpn position in a LTC facility for almost 10 years.   Due to COVID we are extremely short staffed and the schedule changes all the time.   I am scheduled my normal shift tomorrow morning.  On the schedule I am crossed off as the LPN , and listed as a PCA.  The person who is scheduled in my place on that shift and floor is a GPN.  Can they do that?   I have no problem helping out and lately I have done my duties on top of taking an assignment to help the PCA’s.   I am wondering if this has happened to anyone else and if this is okay?   I didn’t pick up the shift, it’s my normal shift I have been working for years.  

As an RN, I've occasionally been assigned to work as a CNA or sitter. A graduate nurse, as far as I know, can do the same things a nurse can do.

I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed, although putting the person with less experience in the CNA role would make more sense to me.

[Lynker, LPN]

I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed. I was asked once to work on a different unit as the night's CNA (I didn't do it because I'd never worked on that unit). But if it was my regular unit, I would have done it. You get the same pay and you get to differentiate from your job a bit. I think that's cool.