What is a RN nurse?

Registered Nurse

RN = Registered Nurse

registered nurse...you go to school from 2 - 4 yrs depending on the college...they do more paperwork and care plan for patients other than taking care of the patient at the bedside...the only thing they do that LVN (licensed vocationl nurse) LPN (licensed practical nurse..same thing) doesn't do is hang blood

It means "Registered Nurse". There are also LPN's "Licensed Practical Nurse and CNA's "Certified Nursing Assistants".

Registered nurse

An RN is a registered Nurse. They go to school for four years and are above a licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) who in turn goes for two years. Then there are CNA's (Certified Nurse's Assistant, who are qualified to care for the sick, and then there are HHA's (Home Health Nurse) who can take care of residents in assistant living homes or in the residents residual home. Then there are TMAs, (Trained Medical Assistant), who in turn can give out Medications. In my opinion CNA , HHA, and TMAs do more of the work than the RN and The LPN. No offense to any one in the medical field, but all the places I know about that is what they all say. Plus the RN and LPN makes more money than the others do.

An RN nurse is a registered nurse nurse.

Whenever this topic comes up I see the same complaints "The UAP (unlicensed assistive personnel) do most of the work and the nurses get paid more". And it's true. We went to college, many of us earned degrees, we passed a licensing exam. We make decisions, we understand medication effects and hazards. We start IVs, we make all kinds of assessments, we do admissions, transfers, discharges. We administer chemo. I can't even begin to list everything we have been educated and trained to do, reverse and monitor. Without nursing judgement, what would UAPs do??? We are held to a higher standard of care. It's the nurse who is held accountable and responsible far beyond the UAP. That's why we have malpractice insurance. Delegation is one of our responsibilities, yes, but we're still accountable for the work done by UAPs. We earn our money.

If UAPs don't like the workload they're given then you should've read the job description before you said yes. Go back to school, become a nurse and you'll see for youself how much we actually do.