RN-HSA

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1. LPNs make RNs seem more impressive?

   RN-HSA replied to RN-HSA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I'll concede this is basically about a pecking order. Although pecking order has such a negative connotation. In many professional environments, some degree of professional stratification is necessary...

2. LPNs make RNs seem more impressive?

   RN-HSA replied to RN-HSA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   That hasn't been my experience universally. In some areas, what you described is exactly what I observed. In other places, "job titles" were a big deal. Weird. I'm talking about both, I guess...but...

3. LPNs make RNs seem more impressive?

   RN-HSA replied to RN-HSA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Thanks for responding. :-) I hope you achieve your professional

4. LPNs make RNs seem more impressive?

   RN-HSA replied to RN-HSA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Absolutely. All of this boils down to perception. However, just because I show equal respect to a MD and CNA/CNT, doesn't mean I don't perceive them differently (based on my uninformed ideas about...

5. LPNs make RNs seem more impressive?

   RN-HSA replied to RN-HSA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Agreed. I'm not disputing any of that. It's interesting that you use MDs as a comparison because I originally had a MD analogy thrown in my OP lol. The reason the MD analogy didn't work in my original...

6. LPNs make RNs seem more impressive?

   RN-HSA replied to RN-HSA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I understand your passion, but the theoretical question I posed actually has nothing to do with nurses currently practicing. Also, for what it's worth, I am an ADN with a degree in a related field.

7. LPNs make RNs seem more impressive?

   RN-HSA replied to RN-HSA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Existing nurses would be grand-fathered in. What I described was actually the opposite of phasing out LPNs...it expands all non-BSN nurses to LPNs (going

8. LPNs make RNs seem more impressive?

   RN-HSA replied to RN-HSA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Good point...but I wonder if extending PN education would open the door to allowing PNs back into areas they are/were being phased out of. I hope I didn't imply that ADN/Diploma were "less RN" than...

9. LPNs make RNs seem more impressive?

   RN-HSA replied to RN-HSA's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Thanks for replying. I agree it would not be exactly like the Canadian PN programs...I was only saying it would be similar. I can definitely see how it is hard to follow the rest of my post. It is...

10. LPNs make RNs seem more impressive?

    RN-HSA posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Does the existence of LPN's make being a RN more impressive? This question has nothing to do with the competence of individual RNs or LPNs. I do not intend to offend LPNs by posing this question...