LPN and RN: What are the differences?

[dRkazN]

I was thinking about a story someone told me the other night, and it had to do something about LPN and RN differences. Where I work at, they tend to give the LPN's a lighter load than RNs. The other night a patient was taken away from an RN because he was thought "stable" but then had a psychotic episode later that night. The RN was chuckling as she told me that since he was taken away from her because someone said during the day shift he was "stable". HA!

But anyway, the point is here: what is the difference? And does it happen anywhere else?

[Curious_53]

Actually I am from New Hampshire and I had never heard of a CNA until I came to New York. I think that they are supposed to be the same as LNA though