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Someone please explain the differences b/w RN, LPN, CNA, etc

Hello all! I am a registered veterinary technician in Georgia. I have a degree in veterinary technology and have sat for a national examination. However, because the field of veterinary mediciane is not well regulated, there are still some states that allow anyone to use the same title as me. I am in the process of gathering as many people in our field to work towards a campaign of sorts to rectify/change the rules and regulations in regards to the support personnel in our field.

The main reason I have chose to use this board is to get information, supprot etc. form thos eof you who are more regulated, and have been through this same struggle.

So...can anyone please tell me the difference between all the different levels of being in the nursing profession and thelevel of education and examinations/CE required to maintain such titles?

Any help would be a great help to those of us in my field.

Thank you,

Melanie R. Parham, RVT :p

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Do you have a professional association for RVT's? Maybe you should become active in it?

Yes I am active on both the state and national level. I have been since I was attending school. I am currently trying to get more people involved so we can kind of form a united front with a strong powerful voice as a result of huge numbers of people. Again, I think using the comparison between the level of education required for the different levels of human nursing and veterinary medicine will help to formulate an approach we need so badly.

Melanie R. Parham, RVT

Hi Melanie,

I work as a technician in Wyoming. 2004 was the first year that techs could be certified in the state through our association. Needless to say I have a low number (001) :coollook: . We are not written into the practice act so we are just considered staff. This means we are considered the same as the kennel/stall cleaner, janitor, etc. Granted those people are needed as a part of the veterinary team but they should not be monitoring and inducing anesthesia; performing dentals; giving injections; performing radiology; changing bandages; surgical assisting; performing laboratory tests; and any number of other duties that techs do :angryfire . This is very frustrating and goes along with the low pay and lack of benefits in this field.

I would like to ask you nurses to do me a favor. The next time you take your animal to the veterinarian, ask if there is a credentialed technician on staff. If not ask the doctor of practice manager "Why Not?". The public needs to be just as concerned with the quality of people who are nursing their animals, as patients are concerned about their own nursing care. Nursing is nursing be it human or animal and only qualified people should be doing those duties.

Fuzzy

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Fuzzy, please get in touch with me!! I am working very hard to get as many techs involved as possible. I started a new group on yahoo on Nov 28 and so far I have 35 members. Some are true technicians and others are assts who want to see change also. Anyways, the group is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GA_Techs_Assts/

I would love to have you join and give input!! Or email me at [email protected] :p

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