RNs in LTC

jkaee · Sep 5, 2004

No, I haven't heard of that happening where I live in PA, but one never knows....in fact, where I work now, the majority of staff nurses are RN's.

Nursenan0 · Sep 6, 2004

Our facility has all RN's as management teams, and several who work as shift supervisors also...Our LPN's are all floor nurses...I'm not sure what you consider "staff" nurses.

Nursenan

donmomofnine · Sep 6, 2004

I have about half and half LPNs and RNs. The interesting thing I have to contend with is that our RNs don't want to lead! I have LPNs as unit managers and they do a terrific job.

JellyBean1 · Sep 11, 2004

Well I'm in Canada and in my province the move is to drastically reduce the RN positions and have only LPN's. It is happening at many facilities now. Legally there should be 1 RN in the building for consult and the rest could be LPN. Seems if they can find a way to get rid of the 1 RN they will do that too.

QUOTE=surfnbeagle]:) Hi I am an RN and work as a staff nurse in a SNF in FL. Has anybody heard that facilities are looking to hire LPNs and not RNs for staff positions?

renerian, BSN, RN · Sep 11, 2004

It is happening in Ohio.

renerian

sixes · Sep 11, 2004

Well I'm in Canada and in my province the move is to drastically reduce the RN positions and have only LPN's. It is happening at many facilities now. Legally there should be 1 RN in the building for consult and the rest could be LPN. Seems if they can find a way to get rid of the 1 RN they will do that too.
QUOTE=surfnbeagle]:) Hi I am an RN and work as a staff nurse in a SNF in FL. Has anybody heard that facilities are looking to hire LPNs and not RNs for staff positions?

I also work in Canada Ontario to be more specific. We have 3 RN (unit managers) on day shift weekdays with 3 LPN's on Evenings we have 1 RN supervisor with 3 LPN's and on Nights we have 1 RN supervisor with 1 LPN the rest of the staff are made up of HCA.

The HCA are the best you could find and we rely on them immensely with out them life would be HE**. Our LPN's are responsible for the medication passes and general assessments.

As a Unit Manager I am responsible to ensure the residents have all there needs met and I chip in and do anything that needs to be done at the time as well as deal with family members and paperwork Doctors etc.

Our system is great and it works. On my floor we work as a great team and in reality that is the most important.

You need a good team leader regardless of the title.

WeSignificants · Sep 11, 2004

Here in California, Title XXII requires one RN per shift for any building over 99 beds. For buildings

DG5 · Sep 27, 2004

In my facility, we have one RN for about 38 residents on days and evenings and one LPN which float between the two. The LPN is not there to run the floor but to assist and complement the RN and the RCA's with tasks such as passing meds, helping the care aids with some care, and they do some assessing but always confer with the RN. I think it works this way. On nights we have one RN for both floors, about 76 residents.

fluffwad · Sep 27, 2004

:) Hi I am an RN and work as a staff nurse in a SNF in FL. Has anybody heard that facilities are looking to hire LPNs and not RNs for staff positions?

I'm in Northeast Ohio, and in our area there seem to be more LPN schools than RN schools.

zippyLPN · Sep 27, 2004

in all the facilities that ive worked in (in mass.) , all nurses including lpns are charge nurses and run the floor.. shame on dj5 for what i took as offensive to all lpns ! i have been a supervior of an 151 bed facility,with rns working under me! lpns have been known to be the unit managers........gee go figure....... rn or lpn , your title means nothing. we're all in the profession for 1 reason........the patients!

Blackcat99 · Sep 27, 2004

:) At my LTC they use LPN's and RN's as charge nurses. I think they sometimes prefer to hire LPN's because they can pay LPN's less money.