pediatric nurse. You can become a LPN‚ an RN‚ or obtain your Bachelor’s in Nursing. A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) takes approximately one year. Your scope of practice varies with the state that you live in. In my state‚ Indiana LPNs cannot start IVs‚ but can give medications‚ with the exception of a few specific medications. While the track to becoming an LPN is the shortest‚ your opportunities are also limited. For example a lot of hospitals are not hiring LPNs so they are limited to nursing homes
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The use of LPNs or LVNs to increase staffing might look great on paper‚ but they cannot replace the role of the RN. Limiting the use of LPNs and LVNs can help decrease incidences in patient care. Increasing the number of RNs on staff to decrease patient load can lead to decreased burnout‚ which can prevent the decline of the
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Why is Nursing a Good Career? Since I became a Certified Nurse Aid (CNA)‚ I kept asking myself if I had chosen a good career. After taking care of one of my patients named Maria‚ I felt in my heart that a least I was going to be doing something that would make me feel good about. Maria loved to sing and tell jokes I remember a lot of times when she made me laugh. Sadly Maria had Alzheimer’s disease and she couldn’t perform a lot tasks by herself. She needed supervision to do everything:
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Nursing in Michigan and Practice Standards As Registered Nurses in the United States of America‚ we have all experienced passing board exams and having to apply for licensure applicable to each of our individual states. The board exams now known as NCLEX or National Council Licensure Examination are universal across the country. However‚ individual licensing requirements for a renewal or reapplication process differ from state to state. Some states such as Texas have additional testing requirements
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Ethics Case Study Jerry McCall is an office assistant for Dr. William’s. Jerry has received training as both a medical assistant and Licensed practical nurses (LPN). During the time the receptionist is out to lunch Jerry is covering for her. Jerry is faced with a common problem in the health care field today. Jerry has been asked to call in a refill for Valium to a pharmacy for a patient. This paper will address why Jerry is not qualified to refill any prescription medication. If Jerry is protected
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There are numerous tools and mechanisms that one can include in developing a direction plan to be given to a LPN/LVN on how to go about providing emotional support to a patient who is on a ventilator. Providing emotional support is crucial component for the patient overall well-being. It has been proven that the emotional state of an individual at times can cause mental health ailments or prolong the recovery of a patient. The following directives can be introduced applying the five different
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Hope is a long term healthcare facility that is currently accommodates 100 residents. Our mission is to provide high quality long term care; therefore it’s important to deal with the issues that won’t allow us to achieve our mission. As a human resource manager I would like to elaborate a few critical problems we are facing. It has been a while that hiring and retaining qualified staff remained an ongoing challenge. Our annual turnover rate is 40 percent. In addition we are dealing with aging workforce
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RESEARCH IN ACTION Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality • www.ahrq.gov Issue #14 March 2004 Hospital Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care Hospitals with low nurse staffing levels tend to have higher rates of poor patient outcomes such as pneumonia‚ shock‚ cardiac arrest‚ and urinary tract infections‚ according to research funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and others. Yet increasing staffing levels is not an easy task. Major factors contributing to lower staffing
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Staffing and Scheduling The debate on safe and adequate nurse staffing has remained a growing and controversial issue in healthcare. The most important issue is determining a safe number of nurses that should ideally work on a unit. In an article by The Journal of Nursing Administration it is stated that‚ “over the course of the last decade‚ hospital restructuring‚ spurred in part by a move to managed care payment structures and development of market competition among
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The medical field has many careers to choose from and is not solely limited to nurses and doctors. Some examples of the career choices in the medical field are a Registered Nurse (RN)‚ a Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)‚ a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)‚ a Medical Assistant‚ and a Certified Nursing Assistant. The growth in these careers all have grown in the last several years and is expected to continuously grow over the next four years‚ with some fields having more drastic growth than others.
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