My name is Jennifer Mast when I was three years old my sister was born when she came out the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck three times she was dead, but they brought her back to life after that she had seizures every three minutes of the day she had spent a lot of time in the hospital and so did I. when she had turned five years old we drove to California so my sister could get half of her brain removed so the seizures would stop. As a eight year old child does I asked the doctors and nurses plenty of questions I even asked what they were going to do with her brain and if I could see it. Watching the doctors and nurses work on my sister at such a young age helping to save my sisters life made me want to pursue a job in nursing ever since I was a young girl. I want to help people and their families like they had helped us. So I begun in high school I attended vocational school to become a nurses aid. I have been a nurse aid for seven years. I have also been a med-tech for the past three years. I have worked in different fields as a nurses aid. I have worked in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and home health care. They all were very enjoy able jobs. I would make a go licensed practical nurse because I care about people wants and needs and I am compassionate about the job I do and how its done. To heel some who is sick or injured or just a family member who needs someone to talk to or a shoulder to cry on I am always there to help. The reward of making someone else who needs help feel better is a feeling you cant explain it makes you feel like you have done your job to make someone else have another day in the world of life. Learning new things in the medical field interest me and the more I can learn the better. When I watch television I watch different medical shows think Its amazing how they save peoples lives and I wish I could do that to. So I am taking a step up the ladder in the medical field so I can enhance my knowledge and in the…
The paper discusses the major role differences between the LPN and RN nurses as well as the strategies on how each can succeed.…
At first glance, some people who are not able to distinguish an registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, might mistake them as the same kind of nurse. Both manage medications, change dressings or insert catheters. Registered Nurses and License Practical Nurses may both work in a hospital, clinic or doctors’ office. Whereas they defer in their scope of practice, nursing process, care plan, critical thinking, and responsibilities . Registered Nurses are independent in many areas, while License Practical Nurses must work under the supervision of an Registered Nurse or physician and cannot practice independently. Can us, who are not aware of the duties and responsiblitlities of an RN and LPN be able to tell the difference?…
Licensed Practical Nurses care for patients in many different ways. They provide basic beside care including taking vital signs, administering injections and medications, and dressing wounds. They are also sometimes involved in dressing, bathing, and helping the patients with whatever they need. Part of their job includes collecting samples for tests, recording patients intake and output, and assist registered nurses and physicians to perform tests and procedures. LPN’s working in a maternity ward assist to deliver, feed, and care for mothers and infants after birth. LPN’s also have to record patients progress closely on their charts for not only the doctors but for insurance purposes as well.…
The many comparisons and contrasts to the roles of an RN to an LPN can vary by their credentials. However, there are differences and similarities in their pay, education, training, abilities and their qualifications that are required for them to practice safely and legally. While is it true that both are ultimately charged with providing quality patient care, the differences are vast and the careers of the two are usually very different. When comparing the differences in opportunities between an RN and an LPN, you must first understand the abilities and skill sets of each.…
There are slight changes related in returning to school from the role of LPN to RN. First I must focus my time in my school work whether it is studying, reading or just not working 80 hours a week to allow the brain to retain in my long term memory. I currently work in two different fields of nursing. One is mental health which I find personally rewarding because of hands on care I’ve learned to realize who I am and why I am who I am. The other is long term nursing care which has given me respect for the elderly and those who cannot care for themselves. The switch to the RN role I personally anticipate more involvement in the care planning and more respect from health professionals.…
As a labor and delivery nurse, I work very closely with the obstetricians and certified nurse midwives who practice at the hospital where I work. The close bonds that we have developed give strength to the provision of responsibility and accountability. The doctors and…
No matter what level the nurse works on they also have to work with the parents of the infant. This includes providing health education on proper newborn care and assisting the parents with bathing, feeding, and providing care while the infant is in the hospital.…
Fitzsimmons an Register Nurse/ clinical explained to me many aspects of being an register nurse. While interviewing Andrea E Fitzsimmons, an register nurse, I gathered a lot of information useful in choosing a career. Andrea E. Fitzsimmons explained to me many aspects of being a register nurse. During the interview I learned that they are several ways to complete college. First, you have to take basic classes and one year of basic classes that you need to apply for nursing program. After applying to nursing program you have to take 2 years nursing classes to get associates. Than you have to go to University College and take another 4 years to get masters bachelors. The register nurses have to take care of patients they have to get information for the doctors. They have to give the doctor the fill report of the patient. Also, they have to give shots take blood pressures and other things that consider doing while you are a register nurses. It is not hard to find a job but, it goes up and down for the openings. The job is fun and yes the job is stressful because you have a person life in your hand. It takes 20 hours to do training and it takes 3 or 4 times. You have to take 3 or 4 times because every 3 to 4 years you have to retake the training because you are learning new products and new procedures. Andrea E. Fitzsimmons loves her job because she is an OB nurses. She takes care of babies when they are born or when they die. She is a nurse for 29 years and she is happy with her job. She works 7 days a week because she teaching other people too. She is also helping students in Daley College with the questions that they have. The approximate salary for a nurse is around 55,000 plus. When becomes a nurse you have to learn a lot of things and also you learn a lot from people because they are a lot of people with different kind of health problem. While becoming a nurse you have to remember that you have other people life in your hand. So…
After I graduate, it is required of me to become a registered nurse by going to nursing school for a number of years. As a neonatal nurse, I must become certified in Neonatal Resuscitation and Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing due to the fact that I will be handling ill infants. Many hospitals in different locations require nurses to complete a small number of years of clinical experience in a hospital setting before practicing as a neonatal nurse. There are 3 different levels of neonatal nursing. Level 1 neonatal nurses take care of healthy infants after they are born. However, there isn't a major demand for these types of nurses because many infants are more likely to stay in the same room with their mother. A level 2 neonatal nurse, which is what I plan on becoming, takes care of premature infants or infants born with illnesses. Level 2 nurses are much more of a necessity than any of the other levels because sick infants need constant attention. A level 2 neonatal nurse may seem as though they have a lot of responsibility on their hands being that they're working with ill infants, but they don't compare to Level 3 neonatal nurse practitioners. Level 3 neonatal nurses work in the NICU with extremely ill infants. They work countless hours checking in on the ill infants and making sure they are responding well to treatments. Level 3 neonatal…
All of the choices made during the path on becoming and making the choice of a career. Picking the appropriate college for the occupation someone wants to pursue is quite critical for learning from the best professors and influencers. Some of the foremost colleges for becoming a Nurse Anesthetist include Lincoln Memorial University, University of Tennessee, and the University of Cincinnati. The best colleges in wanting to go after a career in a Physician Assistant is the University of Kentucky, University of Mount Union, and Duke. The next step after choosing a college is what major to choose. Some occupations have multiple things available to major in, and others is a limited selection. A Physician Assistant has many things one could major in like Biology, Chemistry, or Psychology.…
People have always wondered who are the people that take care of family or friends while they are sick? Many people think that the doctors take care of the patients their whole stay but that is not true, behind the scenes the nurse practitioners take care of the patients. Nurse practitioners have a very difficult job and many hard duties to complete while they are taking care of many sick patients in the hospital.…
But when reflecting on what I do that is just nursing I feel that those things are the things that I have to do to maintain my job. Those things involve following a doctor’s orders, giving and receiving report, charting, and following my hospital’s policies. The things that are just nursing I feel are those things that you are trained to do. I feel that nursing school is a large part of learning what is “just nursing.” We learn how to assess, how to calculate drugs, how to hang IV fluids, how to start an IV all of those things that are necessary in clinical settings. We also must know what to do when certain situations arise such as an allergic reaction or a code. We have to be able to act and think quickly.…
In my experience as an LPN I can relate to many points from the article Resisting, Reaching out and Re-imaging to Independence: LPN`s Transitioning Towards BNs and Beyond (Melrose and Wishart, 2013). This begins with the educational component of how students are instructed differently between the LPN program and the RN program. When comparing the two educational programs I have found the post-LPN BN program expectation are quite different, including the expectations of being an independent learner as well as the expectations around writing essaies, using APA formatting and becoming a self- sufficient student.…
All Neonatal Nurses bathe them and monitor their health. The least favorite thing that neonatal nurses go through is the challenges that many newborns face today. Most of the newborns today go through addiction, HIV infection, and premature birth. All these come down to a baby’s death which neonatal nurses also go through.…