What is the difference between rns and rpns

What fundamentally separates a nurse practitioner from RPNs or RNs is the amount of schooling they receive. With advanced university degrees, nurse practitioners NPs are able to provide independent healthcare services to patients, such as diagnosing complex health problems and prescribing medicine.

Nurse practitioners serve their community in hospitals, schools, pharmacies, rehabilitation centres, and home healthcare agencies, to name a few.

An NP is responsible for managing chronic diseases, reducing and controlling pain, performing physical check-ups, and treating fractures and dislocations. Without the extraordinary work, dedication, and professionalism of Ontario nurses , Closing the Gap would not be able to provide the quality of health services our patients need and deserve. We work with nurse practitioners, registered practical nurses, and registered nurses to provide high-quality care to every single one of our clients.

Are you interested in becoming a nurse in Ontario? Find out more about the profession and industry opportunities from these websites:. In Ontario there are three types of nursing positions, which reflect different levels of education and responsibility. To find out how to pursue a career in one of these directions, check out the Becoming a Nurse section on our Careers in Nursing Website.

RNs either take a collaborative college-university nursing program or a four-year university nursing program — both leading to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree BScN or Bachelor of Nursing degree BN. Retirement homes work much like LTC in the way of providing care for residents. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

First Name. Last Name. The scope of practice of nurses in Ontario PDF is regulated: ii. Also, what is wrong with having a college education?? All that and have no problem taking almost twenty dollars more per hour! People think if they come to Canada just passing the Rn program is enough. Thank god some institutions still value experience! It all comes down to money. So all though the college had made it seem that they were raising the bar for nursing, I doubt that that is what has occurred.

The shortest RN program in Ontario ever, was 22 months , that is the equivalent of 3 college years. The current RPN course is 2 college years. Also at the same time you lower the qualifications of the profession of nursing as a whole. The employer is able to pay more of the work force less and nursing goes the way of teachers in the states to becoming an underpaid and undervalued profession.

Just an opinion. In response to your comment, I would like to make note that UWO has an after degree program that is 19 months. An applicant who decides to enroll with a Bachelors degree in say, Theatre and Drama, because they are a university graduate, could still enroll and take a BSN.

I do value education and would not criticize one with such a background should they decide that nursing might be the right career option for them.

My point however is that the required nursing courses to acquire the BSN degree can be summed up in those 19 months of training or 5 semesters of the after degree program.

My nursing program was 20 months or 5 semesters. But the core nursing knowledge, in my opinion has not changed. As I had mentioned in a previous post, my nursing program required clinical skills in administration of TPN nutrition, maintenance of CVAD and PICC lines, initiating blood transfusions and complex wound care management to name a few.

Our health region recognizes the responsibility and training of practical nurses to the extent that we are able to be the nurse in charge while on duty with a compliment of LPN and RN staff.

But I would argue that practical nurses who are trained to a full scope of practice are being trusted with the level of preparation, responsibility and education required to operate in that role to the benefit of the patient and profession. Change can be looked at as negative or positive, if we take it from a positive perspective we can grow not only as nurses but as people in general.

When we stop growing and learning we become stagnant and sometimes get complacent and sloppy. So play nice, we need each other. RNs and RPNs do some of the same things but we are not the same. The college of Nurses of Ontario still requires that as a patients stability decreases the RPN must have an RN to available to consult and collaborate with and with very unstable patients the RN takes over.

Those are the guidelines according to the CNO! I am an RPN and I see the frustration from both sides. She was a nurse for 20 years! Our role is expanding, and we are doing many of the same things as the RN. We want to be appreciated too. However, i can see the frustrations of the RN as well.

They went to school for 2 years longer, and do have more education on critical thinking among other things. G, you must be an iot to post this comment about you wife loosing jobs to RPNs. If your wife is loosing jobs, maybe she should look at herdelf a little closer, she may need to change something about her attitude. I have a few points for consideration….

Naturally, there will be fewer jobs for RNs so the frustration in finding work as an RN is entirely valid. Also, we enjoy multiple areas ranging from long term care to acute care NOT just acute care.

I would like to point out, that old RN program is no longer sufficient.