Consider this: You’ve made the decision to take your aged grandmother to an assisted living facility, because her care needs have risen to professional level and you can’t take care of it yourself anymore. You find the spot, get things set up at market value prices and go to drop her off. You meet with the people who are in charge of her care and are greeted with this statement, “Student Nurse Parker is going to be in charge of your grandmother’s care. She’s not passed the nursing boards, but she went to school, so we deem her responsible and knowledgeable enough to navigate pharmacy and personal care, without direct supervision of a licensed professional, for your grandmother. That’s OK, right?”
I don’t know about you, but if I’m paying the going rate of about $1,800.00 a month for a bed in a semi-private room at a professional care facility, the first thing out of my mouth is going to be, “Uh, hell no.”
Now, I fully realize shippers don’t care as much for their freight as someone would care for their aged grandmother, but the general principal remains. It is fundamentally against the law to practice any profession that requires a state-tested license without completing that license process, unless you are under direct supervision of a licensed professional of the same ilk, and even in that capacity, you can’t represent yourself as such until you fully earn your license to practice.
Say that three times fast.
Here’s an even worse case scenario – Student Nurse Parker is introduced as “Nurse Parker” and the family is unaware there’s an unlicensed “professional” in charge of the care of their grandmother. “Nurse Parker” has been to school, but didn’t do great in her nutritional studies or pharmacology program and fed grandma a big spinach salad while she was taking high levels of blood thinner for her blood clots. Grandma nicks her shin on the bedside and nearly bleeds out, because even though vitamin K was restricted, “Nurse Parker” didn’t remember spinach has high levels of vitamin K and should never be included in the diet of someone on blood thinners – something her State Board testing may or may not have caught, and should have rightfully been faulted to dietary, but the action is faulted to the nurse because she’s in charge of personal care. Regardless, the minute the family finds out an unlicensed nurse made a life threatening mistake with grandma’s care, the lawsuits are on like Donkey Kong. It won’t matter one bit how good “Nurse Parker” did in school, they’re going to dice her, possibly charge her criminally, fine the facility and award the family pain and suffering.
Can you imagine the litigious repercussions from the first accident of a truck driven by a student driver covered by the request granted by FMCSA recently to C.R. England, if that trainer isn’t present up front? I would speculate the very first lawsuit will pay out at quite a bit more than students’ bus tickets home will cost them for a year, and unfortunately, someone or something will have to be damaged before anyone pays attention.Related
C.R. England says goal in driver training exemption to get qualified truck operators working sooner
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