One question Tweety...how do we know it was a safe assignment??? If you as the RN didn't see an LPN go into a room all nite...what would you do? And just because someone is there, doesn't make them...
fergus I know you didn't mean LPNs are incompetent, and really I don't blame any RN who doesn't wish to delegate to an LPN. I have nothing against anyone doing what they feel comfortable with. On my...
mattsmom I didn't make the RN responsible for everything, just for the supervision she was supposed to provide to ensure the patient assignment she delegated was carried out. I also stated this LPN...
Although I don't agree about the GI pt., especially since there is no real info given. It would depend on his underlying problems/DX, his speed of bleeding or how he tolerates it. As for his...
Unfortunately ....it is only in one state that I know of, but others are considering it. But there are hospitals, that do abide by safe staffing ratios. There are a couple of hospitals I work,...
Ortho_RN ...you and canp and should refuse such an assignment! I have worked Ortho MANY times, and I would never ever take that many pts!!!! You're have a responsibility, and an obligation to...
Ortho _RN, it comes with the territory...RN are the ones legally responsible...or should be. Your education is more indepth, and therefore...it stands to reason, that you would be the one who should...
LPNs don't look for a coatail to hide under, and definitely not from one who just got pressed! Seemed to me the LPN took her lumps, and the RN ran for cover! But I am sure when this goes to civil...
You know what fergus, I don't care who I work with, as long as they work! This LPN was totally wrong in not checking on this pt. sooner! However... I have read on here, and heard many a nurse state,...
Just because she didn't have time, doesn't make her any less accountable! And YES how could the pt. lay there that long, without being checked on...by EITHER NURSE! So the RN delegate, and then...
B. CMR 3.02 Responsibilities and Functions-Registered Nurse which states, "A registered nurse (.e.g., Directors of Nursing), within the parameters of his/her generic and continuing education and...
If she couldn't be everywhere, she shouldn't have accepted the assignment! What happened all of sudden to the "the RN is utimately responsible"??? Is that just for status, or does it mean anything...
She shouldn't have been just "thinking" she should've been checking! And she should have never accepted such an assignment in the first place! Where were her critical thinking skills??? I must add...
I heard about this also, but it started I think in NY back in 2000. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/08/health/main587418.shtml http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/151319_nurses08.html But...
From what I have read above, you do NOT have to take the CGFNS, but can use the licensure by endorsement. Also AZ is compact, but VT is not, but both use NURsys. Compact is a whole nuther deal. You...
I found a little different version of this story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,116460,00.html It seems the woman didn't call the nurse in the beginning, as she was alone when labor began....
Although it has been waaaay too long ago for me to remember what was on my entrance exam, but I have to say that it couldn't have been much, as I got in, and didn't study anything before hand. There...
Brownms46 replied to AstudentLPN's topic in Research
YES...You can work in an ER as an LPN! This includes Level I, II and III ERs, and I have not only worked in them as a traveler, and per diem, but have been offered a position in every one that I have...
Here is what I found, and it just happens to be from a state I worked in. http://www.scdhec.gov/news/releases/2003/200305/nr05TraumaCtrFactSheet03.htm Requirements for a Level I trauma center...