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interested in working on the front lines of health care
consider becoming a licensed practical nurse
LPNs provide care for individuals, families
and groups.
they work in many different health care settings either alone or
as part of a team
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my name is happy here
and i'm in health care
et cetera measure
appel pm is a licensed practical nurse
we are frontline professional nurse actors
direct patient care
i'd always thing i wanted to be a nurse
and yet didn't happen right out of high school said first expected
but i
says a second or third career rather to prissy my nursing dream
and i did it is a mixture of students
with my three kids raised out of the house i went back to school and that's
when i finally got to do what i wanted to do
i work in our strength
i happen to us before that not currently
first for the day always involves coming extra release i consider cup of coffee
could get me going and make me feel ready down what i want to do is take a
look out what my patient assignments canopy for that day so that i can
anticipate
what i know it's going to happen
and prepared at my items ready and so on i'll check charts to make sure that the
lab values are appropriate for the treatment they're getting
are looking scene with a recession isolation requirements and i need to
plan ahead of time
i'd like to see what sorts of of medications that i may need to look up
in case i'm not familiar with them
and now i get that already out of the way
and nearly half the time
and i'm somewhat organized so that
the unanticipated things can be dealt with that
typical days here don't exist
but what i do you cover in a range of the week with include things like
getting a blood transfusion happening and started
and lp under some actually initiate the blood transfusions are responsible for
covering
the rest of the aspects of monitoring patients through that
my sister of procedures with doctor sonya rick right side by side with them
we might be taking flew off of the chest for people who are
building option which limit off the abdomen
so there's a lot of
of variety and what we do
that i'd say your file ways to ching
regardless of what it is you're doing with the patient that d you're teaching
them you're helping them through
the disease process
system how to get the help that unique
we're telling them about the different kinds of disciplines interesting that
they might not be aware of that can
they can access the can tap into
to help their family get through this crisis
tracing on appa
nl can can be employed in a variety of settings
what's called an acute care
hospital environment that
lp answer also engaged in work and nursing homes where they might even take
more of a supervisory role of rehearsing attendants
here not indication
they're involved enough
private clinics
as well as doctors offices
pm's going home care despite a variety of settings
when we hired a in into the cross here for a p ends we were looking for people
who were highly motivated to learn new skills
than we do
get the europeans to work within their scope to the highest degree of their
scope
gets reported by the college of licensed practical nurses
uh... we want staff members who are excited to learn movement staff members
who are
upper challenge in looking for new experiences and to get out there and
help people advancement opportunities with perhaps role of moral in this case
where you might see it provides over nursing attendants depending on the
practicing
might enhance your practice by specializing you can go into
becoming an orphan ortho tack is like a column where you'd learn how dare to put
a cap stomach patient how to cut those socks a very specialized orthopedics
you can also take program that allows you to work in the operating room
where you assist in there and you get things great and then you are you
specialize just in that area there are opportunities of course for you to
expand your own knowledge
and working to any particular specialization that exist within nursing
as a nurse there has to be a balanced because when you're working with
patients who are acutely l
you can take
uh... their sorrow their person
their disease
and when you do that in turn out so you have to be able to someone capitol hill
and be able to go home and spend time in leisure that helps to maintain a healthy
mind
severely combat the next day
you're refreshed you're better able to help out
i have so many things that i like to give my spare time
reason enough hours i would like to guard and i'm not very good at it but i
keep at it
other people say it looks really national beautiful time of course a
perfectionist and i see what i still needed to leave things are not happy
with always rearranging where the plants need to be and what i what i've picture
i keep planting the garden on a sit back and just enjoy but i find that i'm
enjoying working at more than i am saying that thing
i'm very happy
i decided to pursue that dream of mine did he come help clean
and what i find most satisfying about being a nurse is that
really did make a difference he makes a difference to the one
person to that
if you chose to be coming out here
which i think it's a darn
be prepare you always been beginners
have to be called job
if you're not
you have to be
well-suited
and when you are
it's the best thing to do
to become a licensed practical nurse you'll need about sixty eight weeks of
post-secondary studies
you'll also need to register with the college of licensed practical nurses of
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