RNs working as aides/techs

Hey y'all.

im working on a project for work. I am trying to find some scholarly articles about why Nurses can't be scheduled as aides/techs. I am currently working at a hospital where I spend half my shifts as a scheduled CNA. I don't pass meds, do assessments, or any thing with my license. Instead I am taking patients to the bathroom, giving baths, and constantly saying "let me get your nurse."

I am trying to make the change where Nurses work as nurses. And if we're short CNA/techs. We just provide primary care for those patients.

Any articles or legislative documentation to support this would be great!

thank you in advanaced.

I don't think you're going to find what you're looking for.

We have very recently hashed out a similar question to its death.

Laws prohibiting this or solid evidence against it didn't come up in the discussion as far as I recall.

Some of us don't get what the big deal is, although having it be a regular occurrence would probably change some minds.

Has the idea of providing primary nursing care been rejected, or what? If so, for what reasons? Personally I haven't found primary nursing to be an even-up solution for not having a tech, even if the RN assignments are (ever-so) smaller. I'd rather have someone assigned to the tech role, even if it's me. I just personally find it more intolerable/more anxiety-producing to be doing something time-consuming that doesn't require an RN when I am responsible for the medical/nursing needs of patients. If that makes sense.

As another poster said we recently had a thread on this very topic that hashed the issue to death. Assuming you are still being paid RN wages for days scheduled as a CNA, there is no standing to argue against working as an aid (except perhaps point out to your employer how much money they are wasting if this is done on a regular basis) as all aid duties are within RN scope of practice.