3 questions Rn related long term care

[chicsurfs, LPN]

I need to know the laws in NC regarding a few things please?

1. Can an Rn that owns a private school teaching a variety of classes

1. Cna 1 -2

2 Med tech

Can she allow someone to teach her classes that is not an Rn, only a cna?

Can a med tech at the long term facility be schooling the students when there is no RN on the premises at ALL? Let alone can a med tech be teaching and managaging the students, period?

Do long term care facility's not require a 24-7 RN, LPN to be on the premises at all times?

Because, where the students took there clinics. The med tech's were basically running the place..is this the norm in NC?

Also, what if the facility has cockroaches, and a student finds a resident that has a decubitis and tells the med tech who is lying and trying to say the student isn't being honest? The person whom ownes this private school has this (former med tech student) work for her at this long term care while she isn't ever there, is this legal??

Sorry for so many questions..

Also when she signs up her atudents for online classes, 2 night classes a week and 16 of their clinics she shows for the first 3 weeks then starts sending in a variety of different people..many ended up failing their State because she also didn't even go over certain chapters with the students.

Please kindly answer my questions and tell me what you think. Thanks so much.

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

If all of this is going on, I would call the state regulatory board in NC, the department of health, and local elder services as well as have conversation with the ombudsman of the home.

How this has to do with the school in question, I am not sure, however, there should be a higher education board in your state. On your state website, there is usually information under health and human services on who to contact for complaints.

With all that being said, make sure this is not all hear-say/gossip/foolishness. Private (for profit I am sure) schools can have anyone at any time teach anything to anyone. After such tuition monies are paid, said student then goes to take test for state certification, and lo and behold can not pass it due to substandard education. And in a "private group home" can perhaps obtain employment, however, elder services can and should be called when there's a resident risk. Heath department of your town can address the bug issue.

Additionally, your point about no RN/LPN....they get around that by having one "on call" for "phone consultations". You couldn't pay me enough to be that LPN......ANYWAYS....

I am shocked and amazed at the large amount of money random people are making in the name of bringing elderly people into the rooms of their home, and calling it a "private care home". At the expense of the resident's social security check.

Sick stuff.

[chicsurfs, LPN]

It's not gossip I witnessed it myself (decubitis).

Its a very LARGE long term care not small. No ombudsman on premises such as I'd sated the med techs are the one's who are tellng the cna's what to do and from my understanding only an Rn can do that?

It has to do with the school because I was a student. And, IF this rn was told about what myself and others saw there she is no better allowing her students to go there imo.

She was never even at the facility when we were all doing our clinics! The med tech was wearing a t-shirt with the school name on and watching over all us and telling us what to do.

[chicsurfs, LPN]

Um your profile says you are a lpn?

[chicsurfs, LPN]

Um your profile says you are a lpn?

^{Um I was once. Thank God I don't}

^{Work with you..}

[mmc51264, BSN, MSN, RN]

Where is the DON??? this sounds like the place needs to reported to the state.