The home health agency has offered to hire the LPN/LVN applicant as a home health aide. What consideration provides the greatest deterrent to the LPN/LVN accepting the offer?
a. The LPN/LVN will have difficulty receiving compensation from employers.
b. Patients will respond less favorably to the individual because of status issues.
c. Legally, one is always held to the standard of performance of their highest license.
d. Once employed as a home health aide, the individual cannot be employed as an LPN/LVN.
ANS: C
Such a position offers lower pay than the LPN/LVN scale, yet the individual is held to the requirements established by the highest license held. The LPN/LVN would not have difficulty receiving compensation from the agency; the payment problem is that nonprivate payers do not reimburse for care given by LPN/LVNs. Patients responding less favorably to the individual because of status issues is not a consideration. It is not true that once employed as a home health aide, the individual cannot be employed as an LPN/LVN.
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