Why did they give an LPN new RN's to be trained?

[nyrselady]

There was a time in North Carolina when new RN's in this certain facility would be paired with LPN's on some days for training. Now there is a rule in the Nurse Practice Act in NC that an LPN cannot teach an RN. Weird?

[caliotter3]

Well, who do they expect to teach them, then? Usually, there are only LPNs available for this task.

[Sensoria17]

Apparently, my facility wasn't notified, or is this a new rule just for hospitals?

[KittyBinimi]

I just trained an RN in my nursing home. I'm a charge nurse training her for the same position. She didn't seem to mind, and I don't see a problem with it. After all, it's not like I was training her to supervise.

[Seas]

Training and teaching are two different things. You can orient whomever you want, even the DON. You show them how things and procedures are handled particular to the facility. But you can't teach them the academics and the basics of skills. Because, technically RN should have more advanced knowledge about those.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

In my new job, it was a LVN who helped train me. Reason: she was there for a few years, knew how things worked, knew all of the procedures, and knew where everything was. I had absolutely no problem with her training me--she knew what she was doing there and I was there to learn.

[sharpeimom]

i was paired with an rn on some days and with an lpn on the rest when i began. i learned mostly leadership skills and she honed my

assessment skills and the lpn taught me the nitty gritty nursing skills that i had learned in school but hadn't had all that much

practice actually doing.

i feel it was the best of both worlds.