The recognition and utilization of the LPN began because of RN shortages and a reevaluation of LPNs as team leader. The approximate date of this change in staffing oc-curred in the:
1. 1940s.
2. 1950s.
3. 1960s.
4. 1970s.
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Team nursing with LPN leadership was introduced in the 1950s as a result of the shortage of RN nurses and abundance of auxiliary nursing personnel, whose skills and leadership poten-tial was reevaluated.
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