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Thursday, April 21, 2011

About Licensed Practical Nurses

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Who are Licensed Practical Nurses?

Licensed Practical Nurses are those nurses who doesn't actually graduated with a degree on nursing. These nurses renders basic services like drawing of blood for blood sample, measure height, weight, BMI, get blood pressure, heartbeat count, get and assist patient on information gathering and assistant, and other simple task any sensible people can learn.


How can someone become a nurse without getting a nursing degree?

A person can be a nurse through enrolling in Licensed Practical Nurse programs (lpn programs). These programs are to help future practical nurses the basics in medicine, health care, proper patient assistance and those simple nursing task and administration.


Why would a medical institute hire someone who didn't took a nursing degree instead?

A nurse who took nursing doesn't mean he's more qualified than those who just took an LPN program. Believe me, a graduating nursing student under practicum in a hospital is shaking while taking my blood pressure and beat count! It's just taking a patient's blood pressure, and beat count! And the nurse (a male) even told me to sit down so he can look for a better area to press my veins for the count. I was bed ridden. I shouldn't sit down. The other nurse (his classmate) frowned at him and hit him when they went out of the room. So much for a BS Nurse graduate!

LPN program includes everything that a would-be nurse to administer basic task should know.  Taking a program would not under-qualify one to get a nursing job.  Of course, LPN graduates won't be seen inside the operating room sewing the tummy of someone who gave birth through C-section.

Nurses with basic tasks are so in demand.  There are more and more health care institutes that are opening because people are not getting any healthier compare to the past few decades when there's no pollution like today's, and there's not much junk foods before.  So expect that more nurses would be needed in the near future.
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