LPNs just like aides are most definitely NOT ‘lowly’. They serve a wonderful purpose in making sure patients are well cared for. She too has a license that must be protected and as an ethical worker she should be screaming to high heaven (and every one up the line) about the over stepping of scope of practice.
I know RNs who would be more than a little aggravated to ask an LPN to do their job for them. Just as doctors are jealously guarding their scope of practice so do nurses.... so should LPNs
I’m an EMT or used to be. What can I get a job doing? Always wanted to try my hand at brain surgery. Maybe as a consultant for breast implants?
I deliberately quoted LPN to show that I do not deign to call them such. She sees it as more of a handicap than a hand up. Just a few years ago, LPNs were fading away as most hospitals feverishly snapped up RNs, BSNs, and ARNPs to fill their rolls. Now that Obamacare is gutting the medical field, they need any hands they can get.
Our nation’s hospitals are going to wind up looking like Army field hospitals in the middle of a war zone soon enough.