Licensed practical nurse

Ivy Meredith is a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) at Bridgepointe Health Campus. She deals with death from time to time as a part of her job. During this devastating time, she must prepare the death certificate and call for the funeral services to come get the body. While she waits for the funeral service, she will do a physical assessment of the patient’s condition. She will notify their family and physician of the death. She will also document the findings of her assessment and notification in…

nursing is a piece of cake but little does one know being a nurse comes with huge responsibility. It takes a special kind of person to become a registered nurse. A registered nurse must coordinate patient care, monitor patients’ self-management, take vital signs and keep track of patients’ medical information, and provide medication to patients and watch for side effects. In order to fulfill the requirements to become a registered nurse, first one has to attend an accredited nursing school. The…

“Every single day you learn something new,” Nurse Medina says, “ and if you look at everything there is usually never a double moment.” Medina works in the Emergency Room (ER) at Lenox Hill Hospital where she experiences different situations that occur in the department. Nursing isn’t as simple as it sounds. Working twelve-hour shifts with different scenarios every day is arduous for the nurse practitioner that manages the ER. Working in the ER to save a life may sound a bit cliche, “But when…

many adjustments new nurses must make as they begin their new roles as registered nurses with Bachelor’s degrees, from how to maintain their licenses according to the state licensing board to making sure that they are up-to-date with new policies in the health care facility. As new nursing grads prepare for their first jobs following graduation, there is always significant emphasis placed on the procedures and policies of the health care facility in order to help new nurses acclimate to their…

I also noticed several nurses with strong leadership skills. All of the charge nurses in which I have come into contact with exhibit strong management and leadership skills. Most of the time in the surgical intensive care unit (SINU), the charge nurse takes on his/her own patients as well as organizing and delegating the unit’s activities.…

Prescriptive authorities such as medical physicians, dentists, psychiatrists, podiatrists, physician assistants and advance practice nurses have the authority to prescribe medications to a patient. The medication plan or prescription is dispensed and prepared by a licensed pharmacist and then dispatched to be administered by a licensed nurse. This chain of events ensures a sort of checks and balances in which errors made by the previous clinician can be identified and clarified. For example…

Nurse, a highly respected profession, is characterized by a mandatory discipline to govern the life processes of each patient that is being cared for. In the Professional Communications course, as a student nurse we are taught how to build a nurse-client relationship throughout the program. For each individual student nurse and nurses, it is crucial to know the difference of a nurse-client relationship appropriately to working professionally in the medical field. Coming into the program with no…

The field of gender studies is an area of interdisciplinary study that analyzes the social aspect of gender and how it relates to different subcategories of life. It explores what it entitles to be female or male; and the experiences a person may encounter due to their gender, sexuality, race, class, etc. Because gender studies analyzes the social aspect of gender, it coherently applies to the subcategory of gender in the workplace. In most fields and professions gender has an effect on the way…

psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, I chose the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner because mental health affects so many people around the globe. I’m aware of the issues that faces patients who suffer from a mental illness every single day. Mental disorders are among the most common causes of disability around the…

My main goal in life is helping people and always helping people. My life time goal is to be a Registered Nurse. The health care profession of nursing contributes to society in many different ways from the care of families and communities by attaining, to the care of an individual maintaining, recovering from many different health reason and quality of life. Before choosing to become a nurse, you must first examine yourself and look to see if you have the right qualities for this particular job.…