Unlike the RNs. who provide patients with substantive medical care and perform triage and evaluations. LVNs are intended as support staff. This is the reason that BOPrun prisons rarely hire LVNs. said Sandy Parr. a vice president in the federal correctional officers union and formerly a registered nurse in a federal prison. "LVNs are too limited to make sense to hire." she said. Yet in the BOPs immigrantonly contract prisons. LVNs often appear in the files as the sole caregivers that sick prisoners see for days or weeks. They seem to perform jobs equivalent to those of registered nurses. a practice that prison medical staff confirm.
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