The Canadian Unition of Public Employees (CUPE) said that Saskatchewan's nursing shortage could only be resolved by including LPNs. There seems to be a worldwide nursing shortage, in Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, and of course in America. Part of the problem is Saskatchewan has to do with the number of nurses, but that is not the whole picture. A lot of the LPNs that are working, many of them are not permitted to perform all their job duties.

In long term care facilities LPNs are employed to their potential however in acute care settings they are not as well used. The thing is that LPN programs and the skill set that LPNs are required to have has changed over the previous 10 years. With the current skill set, LPNs can be gainfully employed in most acute care settings. Though this is not the complete solution to the problem, it is definitely a step in the right direction.

 


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