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Smoky Ridge Health & Rehabilitation may require an orientation for licensed nurses before approving clinicians to pick up shifts at the facility. The record covers RNs and LPNs, and the facility keeps a separate orientation for certified nursing assistants.
What a licensed nurse inherits at handoff
A nurse arriving for a shift takes on a group of residents mid-course: medications already scheduled, orders already written, changes already noted by whoever worked before. Making sense of that quickly depends on knowing how the building records and communicates it, which varies more between facilities than the clinical work does. Orientation written for licensed roles tends to concentrate there.
What these records typically include
Material of this type compresses what a permanent hire absorbs gradually into something completed beforehand.
- Facility protocols covering how the building runs its units.
- Standards that apply to clinicians working shift by shift.
- Resident care policies specific to the facility.
Because it is built around one building, it belongs to that facility rather than to an outside certifying body.
Two licenses on one record
RNs and LPNs share this entry, which is usual where facility-level material applies the same way to both. Scope differences between the licenses come from the state rather than the building, so they fall outside what an orientation addresses.
How to add this credential to your Nursa profile
Role-scoped orientation records are added the same way as any other credential.
- Navigate to your Profile in the Nursa app.
- Locate Credentials on your profile view.
- Select the "+" button.
- Select "Add Credential."
- Select the credential you want to add.
- Follow the instructions to add your credential.
Depending on the credential type, this may require uploading proof of the certification, reviewing and signing a document, or completing a facility-required training in ShiftReady. ShiftReady is an online learning management platform that offers clinicians access to a library of third-party training resources.
Not on Nursa yet? Get started with Nursa to begin picking up LPN shifts.
