...Transition: LPN to RN…Is it the right decision for everyone? The debate is as old as the professions themselves, and in a society where success is most often measured by “climbing the corporate ladder” the choice between becoming an LPN/LVN or an RN is not always easy. While an RN license provides more opportunities for promotion, an LPN/LVN license can be earned more quickly with less time needed in school. Nurses at all levels face the challenge of balancing work with school, family obligations and other external commitments, and often, these factors play a large role in determining available finances and time available for educational pursuits. For people considering a nursing career, RN programs are sometimes excluded as most classes are daylight programs. Accelerated and evening programs exist, but clinicals and preceptorships are generally offered during the day. LPN training programs, being shorter to begin with, are much more flexible and usually offer part-time, night, and weekend hours. As people evaluate the career choice that’s right for them, educators must work to match the student with the best career fit, and it’s equally important for future nurses to understand the requirements and potential benefits of careers and an LPN/LVN and RN. Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses, known as LPNs or LVNs, depending on the state in which they work, provide basic nursing care under the supervision of a registered nurse or physician. Typically tasks such as changing...
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...interview is Marlene Jones-Wallace. She is 42 years old and she is a LPN or in other words a Licensed Practical Nurse. Marlene has been a LPN for 7 years at Montefiore Medical Center. She works within the Emergency field. I have gained information about what is takes to become a LPN, What do they do? And other information I felt that we should know. A licensed practical nurse or LPN works under the direction of registered nurses and doctors. They care for patients who are sick, injured, recovering or disabled. A licensed practical nurse is also known as a licensed vocational nurse or LVN. The job involves a variety of daily tasks ranging from dressing wounds to feeding infants. On the job, Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses perform a variety of functions. These functions can be maintaining records of patients' histories, provide dressing or bathing assistance, update doctors and registered nurses on a patient's status, measure vital signs, assist doctors and registered nurses with tests and procedures, caring for and feeding infants, assemble and or use and clean certain medical equipment, start IV drips or give medication, and monitor medication and a patient's response. Most LPNs are trained to work in all aspects of health care, but there are some who specialize in certain areas. LPN’s or LVN’s can be found in all kinds of medical settings like hospitals, clinics, physicians' offices, nursing homes and even in a patient's own home. Many LPN’s and LVN’s work nights...
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...Health Care Interview HCS/235 December 10, 2013 Health Care Interview An LPN is useful in a primary care setting; LPNs' have a larger scope then Medical Assistants. A university of phoenix student conducted an interview with an LPN named Melissa Apadoca. Melissa works at Kaiser Permanente in the Family practice and Primary care facility. Just a brief background on Melissa, she has been an LPN for 7 years. Did her LPN training at Denver School of Nursing. Melissa is currently enrolled at the University of Phoenix pursuing her LPN to BSN to become a registered Nurse. She is in her freshman year at the University of Phoenix and anticipates on being done by the end of 2015. A brief over view of the Family Care clinic Melissa works at for Kaiser Permanente. This department has an over all of 15 providers, this includes doctors, D.Os’, Nurse Practitioners, and Physicians assistants. Melissa’s role in the department is mostly direct patient care in the aspect of Medication distribution and medication injections. Her biggest role is in giving patients test results, such as blood labs and other pathology results over the phone. University Of phoenix student: “with going over your primary responsibilities in your specific department at Kaiser Permanente, who are your primary customers”? Melissa Apodaca: “we are a family practice clinic”. So what that means is that we see people from birth to death”. “So I guess the answer to your question would be people of all ages are...
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...License Practical Nursing Introduction (paragraph 1)--License Practical Nursing is a career field that I always had an interest in, but I just never put a title to the interest. I have been working in this career path for 8 years now as a personal care aide for a home care agency. I have had the pleasure of being on the physical, side working directly with the patient, and administrative side, maintaining the office and clerical information. Paragraph 2-- When I first started into this career path I had all kinds of emotional, squeamish, and frightening obstacles that I had to overcome. In this career path, to be awesome at what you do, there is no room for being squeamish or frighten by the things that come along with it. You must always put the best on the outside. You are there to take care of the sick and that means that the sick isn't always a tolerable sight. The skills of an LPN goes far beyond education. A nurse must be compassionate, observant, firm but fair, and most of all willing to the support for the patient. These skill are innate, they cannot be taught but developed from within. While LPNs should possess a compassionate nature, they sometimes need to be thick-skinned when it comes to occasional unkind treatment from others. ("Licensed Practical Nurses."Ferguson's Career Guidance Center) A care provider whitout a heart is a poor care provider. As an LPN you are responsible for makings sure that the patient receives the proper care that is laid out by the Physician...
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...David Twomey (2013) in his article “Licensed Practical Nurses: Protected "Employees" Or Statutory "Supervisors" Under The NLRA? The Impact of the 11th Circuit's Lakeland Health Care Decision” presents information about labor unions and analyzes the dispute that involves LPNs and their employer. This article published in Labor Law Journal in 2013. The author analyzes a case where The United Food and Commercial Workers Union filed a petition with the NLPR seeking representation election to establish the union and represent LPNs of Lakeland facility. The Employer, Lakeland Health Care LLC, opposed the petition, stated that all LPNs considered as supervisors under the NLRA. After reviewing the case on September 24, 2010, the court concluded that...
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...providing a wide variety of services. Many registered nurses are general-duty nurses who focus on the overall care of patients. They administer medications under the supervision of doctors and keep records of symptoms and progress. General-duty nurses also supervise licensed practical nurses (LPNs), nursing aides, and orderlies (Bureau of Labor Statistics). The RN also performs comprehensive nursing assessment of the health status of patients that addresses changes to the patient conditions, develop a plan of nursing care that establishes nursing diagnoses, setting goals to meet identified health care needs, and determine nursing interventions and implementation of nursing care through the execution of nursing strategies and regimens ordered by doctors. Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) help physicians and registered nurses (RNs) care for patients. They have the technical knowledge to perform routine nursing duties, but they may also make appointments, maintain patient records, and perform basic clerical duties. Their work allows doctors and registered nurses to devote their time to patient care that requires specialized knowledge. Most licensed practical nurses work in hospitals, nursing homes, other health care institutions, and private homes. Some are employed in doctors' offices, clinics, and public health agencies. Still others work in large businesses. They care for workers who have accidents or become ill on the job. Licensed practical nurses are also called licensed...
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...Question I Assigning fault in this case is difficult because all the facts are not presented; there are so many details and questions that are left unanswered to make a justified decision as to who really is at fault in this case. That being said I would not place fault to anyone in this case, however everyone involved in this case has some shared responsibility to the patients care. During report Jane is told that the patient fell without injury around lunch time but has had an uneventful evening. At my current place of work VA Hospital there is a Fall Prevention Program with a Post Fall Management Protocol in place, these are measures that are to be implemented after a fall by nursing, and multidisciplinary team members they are; assess for injuries and determine level of injuries, assess vital signs, including sitting/standing blood pressure and pulse, If diabetic, check blood glucose, notify physician/medical provider, The provider of or on-call physician will assess patient within one hour, provide care, order any needed diagnostic tests, medications, etc., complete a Report of Fall Incident Note and document circumstances of fall in medical record, notify all team members of the patient’s fall, complete Fall Risk assessment and implement high risk fall interventions, if indicated. First 24 hours after the fall: obtain vital signs every 8 hours, observe for possible injuries not evident at the time of the fall (assess limb reflex, joint range of motion, weight bearing)...
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...of delegating tasks to our team of nurses and aids. We may have Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN), patient care techs (PCT), mental health techs (MHT), or certified nursing assistants (CNA) on our unit and are responsible for all of their actions. The RN must be familiar with the rules of delegation and take responsibility for the delegations that he assigns. The Arkansas State Board of Nursing rules, chapter five delegation, lists criteria for delegation: a licensed nurse delegating the task is responsible for the nursing care given to the client and for the final decision regarding which nursing tasks can be safely delegated ("ASBN," 2008, para. 3). Followed by seven other provisions that must be met. It also lists specific nursing tasks which may be delegated without prior nursing assessment, and nursing tasks that may not be routinely delegated. When I work on the psychiatric unit we usually have a set team that includes a RN charge nurse, an RN, an LPN, and three MHTs. We have...
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...Practice Guidelines Practice Guidelines illustrate how LPNs can meet the standards of practice when performing specific activities and are written to guide and inform LPN practice. Blood and Blood-Product Transfusion Therapy Blood/blood-product transfusion therapy is a therapeutic nursing intervention that involves the preparation, administration, monitoring, evaluation, and documenting of these products. Boundaries in the Nurse-Client Relationship This joint Practice Standard is the result of professional collaboration between CLPNBC, the College of Registered Nurses of BC, and the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of BC. Consent An adult has the right to choose, refuse, or revoke health care. According to legislation, consent means ensuring that an adult is fully informed about the health-care treatment. Documentation Documentation is any written or electronically-generated information regarding a client. Duty to Provide Care Duty to provide care is the legal obligation of an LPN to take reasonable care to avoid causing harm to clients. Duty to Report Legislation requires LPNs to report in writing to CLPNBC (or another person's College), if the LPN, on reasonable and probable grounds, believes that the continued practice of a designated health profession by the other person might constitute a danger to the public. Medication Adminstration Medication administration is a nursing intervention that involves the preparation, administration, evaluation, and documentation...
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...scenario. What standards of practice or elements of the code of ethics should be considered? Are any in conflict? Maria is an LPN working in the community setting. A professional practice issue found in this scenario is the amount of time Maria received for orientation. She is fresh out of nursing school and is thrown right into work. The workload is quite high and she has not met those under her care or had time to research about her clients. There are three LPNs under her direction with 150 clients in total. That means Maria is caring for most of the clients instead of having the workload split equally between her and the three other LPNs. Maria currently has 65 clients, with 85 clients being split between the other three nurses. According to the College of Licenced Practical Nurses of BC Standard 3, Client-Focused Provision of Service (2014) says, Maria is supposed to “supervise, lead and assign appropriately to other members of the health care team” (p. 8)....
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...in Six States A link between a history of criminal conviction and a risk of professional misconduct highlights the importance of criminal background checks. O BJECTIVE : The researchers sought to determine what factors might affect the outcomes of remediation, including the likelihood of recidivism, among nurses who had been the subject of disciplinary action and had been put on probation by a state board of nursing. M ETHODS : Boards of nursing in six states, Arizona, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, and North Carolina, chose to participate in this exploratory study. A 29-item questionnaire was used to investigate the records of 207 RNs, LPNs, and advanced practice RNs (APRNs) who were disciplined and put on probation by a state nursing board in 2001, as well as to collect data on their employment settings, the boards’ actions, and remediation outcomes (the presence or absence of recidivism); 491 nurses who had not been disciplined served as controls. RESULTS: Among the disciplined nurses studied, 57% were RNs, 36% were LPNs, 3% held both RN and LPN licenses, and 3% were APRNs. Of the disciplined group, 39% recidivated between 2001 and 2005. Three factors were shown to influence the recidivism rate: having a history of criminal conviction, having committed more than one violation before the 2001 probation, and changing employers during the probationary period. Data on history of criminal conviction prior to state board disciplinary action were available for 112...
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...Professional Roles and Values in Nursing Name: Institution: Course code: Instructor’s name: Date: Explain the functional differences between a regulatory agency, such as a Board of Nursing (BRN), and a professional nursing organization (PNO) as it pertains to your professional nursing practice. A regulatory agency such as a Board of Nursing (BRN) is a federal agency that is found in every state. The main function of a BRN is to safeguard the health of the community by overseeing nursing practice and ensuring safety in a state. This is achieved through the issuance of nursing licenses and ensuring that the licensees are complying with the laid down state laws. On the other hand, a PNO is a union that represents various types of nurses and nursing backgrounds. A PNO can have a statewide reach (such as the Colorado Nurses Association), a national reach (such as the American Nurses Association) or an international reach (such as the International Child Health Nursing Alliance). The main function of the regulatory agencies is to outline the safety standards in health care within the boundaries of a specific state (National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 2015). Conversely, a PNO has various functions that are all geared towards awareness among nurses. PNOs allow nurses to stay informed by offering avenues to stay up to date with the important issues that influence their professional lives. PNOs also serve the purpose of giving nurses a sense of belonging by developing...
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...Personal Plan for Role Transition from LPN to RN Name Course Tutor Assignment #1 XX University Date Personal Plan for Role Transition from LPN to RN Being a Licensed Practical Nurse for three years was extremely exciting and rewarding for me. I have enjoyed being a caregiver to those who are sick. Nursing is regarded as a respected and admired profession. I’ve always admired and looked up to nurses. Registered Nurses is in need in every field of medicine. They can choose to work in various fields of medicine and are able to work in specialized areas of the hospital such as the Emergency Room, Operation Room, Critical Care Unit, and Intensive Care Unit. Last year, I decided to return to school to continue my education for BN, as my goal is to work as RN in the future. Transition from LPN to RN doesn’t occur in single day, it takes time and step by step planning. With every step, I will acquire new knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, confidence and behaviors associated with RN role. The five expected outcomes/goals of the LPN-RN change 1. I will develop effective communication skills/techniques within one year. Communications is very essential part in nursing profession. The quality of a nurse’s communication is important factor in nursing care. It is also very important to establish and modify nurse-client relationship; I will acquire effective communication skills by speaking and writing clearly, and by practicing attentive listening. I will accept and respond...
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...Why I want to become LPN? This has been a long and tireing journey to fulfil a dream that has been frustrating and at times seems difficult to achieve. My dream to become an LPN has been long and forthcoming and this is my last atempt to fufil something that I've always wanted. I've been a certified nursing assistant for almost 15 years. I remembered the first time I got my cna lincense , very happy to say and ready to start my career. I was very enthusiastic about what II've learned and how I could put it to practice. I got my first job as a cna in a nursing home in the Bronx. I was very happy and scared at the same time. I use to listen to how people talk about this cna job like it was a hot mess, i came to realize that it wasnt as bad as they say and I put my all into it....
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...The LPNs (licensed practical nurse) role is to provide care to patients on a day to day basis, based on the needs determined by the RN or physician. The responsibility of the LPN is to perform basic medical procedures such as changes in conditions of patients to the RN or physician. The LPN in their role is also able to perform wound care to injuries based on orders from RN or physician. The LPN is vital for recording important data on residents, such as condition, vital signs, and progress towards goals. Anything that is “observed” by the LPN that is pertinent to the care of the patient should be reported to the RN or physician for proper follow up. The LPN is able to manage patient s in doctor offices, home settings, and nursing home/rehabilitation facilities (The Role of Licensed Practical Nurse in a Hospital, 2013)....
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