My professor is an LPN in a BSN program

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Hello everyone,

I am in my senior year in a BSN program in Tennessee. I just learned my professor for next Semester is not an RN she is an LPN. I'm curious to see if this is allowed?

Thanks.

Specializes in Cardicac Neuro Telemetry.
Yeah....I don't think it would in Texas, either. I wonder if there is more to the story that perhaps the OP isn't aware of?

It wouldn't. I am a Texas nursing student (Texas Tech to be exact, guns up) and all of my instructors are RNs with either a MSN or a PhD or DNP. I looked at the BON's website and it said that in a nursing instructor in Texas at a minimum must be a licensed RN with a MSN or above.

Bottom line, an LPN or LVN is not qualified to be supervising their clinicals.

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It wouldn't. I am a Texas nursing student (Texas Tech to be exact, guns up) and all of my instructors are RNs with either a MSN or a PhD or DNP. I looked at the BON's website and it said that in a nursing instructor in Texas at a minimum must be a licensed RN with a MSN or above.

Bottom line, an LPN or LVN is not qualified to be supervising their clinicals.

Additionally, I often read posts by LVNs stating that they supervise RNs at their facilities. In Texas LPNs are not legally allowed to supervise the nursing practice of RNs. They can orient them as to policy, but they are legally prevented from having any kind of supervision over actual nursing care. This is per our Nurse Practice Act.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

Is the school accredited?

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