I have worked in longterm care where the LPN works as a nurse, has her own team of patients and cares for them as I did my own team. Yes we all worked together and I treated them as co-workers not the typical RN-LPN roles. I found that many LPN's that worked there were nurses long before I was and could teach me. Now I work in a hospital and I find there is no team work. Everyone has to watch there own back. If The LPN and the Nurse split the team then the LPN is responsible.