The reason? LPNs require “direction and oversight by an RN” in acute care settings and national studies show having RNs at a patient’s beside “makes a positive difference to the patient’s outcome,” an executive at the 443-bed hospital said.
Meanwhile, Genesys Regional Medical Center, a 410-bed hospital in Grand Blanc, Mich., laid off 47 LPN positions in 2009 and McLaren Regional Medical Center, a 243-bed hospital in Flint, announced in 2009 it would not lay off any LPNs working in in-patient hospital units through 2013.
Read the MLive report on licensed practical nurses.
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