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Interested in working on the front lines of health care?
Consider become a licensed practical nurse
LPNs provide care indivisuals, families and groups
They work in many different health care centres
either alone or as a part of a team
We talk to an LPN to find out more
My name is Cathy Fuhr and I'm an LPN ^^
An LPN is a Licensed Practical Nurse
We are front line professional nurse. it does direct patient care
I always think I wanted to be a nurse
and It didn't happened right out of the high school as I first expected
But I chose as a secondary or third career rather to pursue my nursing dream
and I did it as a matual student
with my three kids raised and out of the house and went back to school
and that's what I finally got to do what I wanted to do!
I work 8 hour shifts and I have done 12s before but not currently
My first part of the day always involves coming extra early
so I can start with a cup of coffee to get me going and
make me feel ready
Then what I wanna do is take a look at what my patient assignment is gonna be for that day
so that I can inticipate what I know is going to happen
and plan, prepare and get my items ready and so on
I will check the charts to make sure that the lab values are appropriate for the
treatment they are getting
I'll look and see whether there are special isolation requirements that I need to
plan a head of the time
I'd like to see what source of medications I might need to look up
in case of I'm not familiar with them
and I get that all ready out of the way
and then we have the time
I'm some what organized so that the unanticipated things can be done with better
Typical days here don't exist
but what I do cover in a range of we can include things like
getting a blood transfusion happening and started
and LPN doesn't actually initiate the blood transfusion
but we are responsible for covering the rest of the aspects of it
Monitoring patients through that
I assist with procedures with doctors
and I work right side by side with them
We might be taking fluid of from chest for people who were
building up too much fluid of the abdomen
So there is a lot of, variety in what we do
But I say you're always teaching
regardless of what it is you are doing with patient with that day
you are teaching them you are helping them through
the disease process, the system how to get to help that you need
We are telling them about the different kinds of diciplines there are out there
that they might not be aware of that
They can access and they can top into to help their family through this crisis
an LPN can be employed in variety settings
I'm in a what's called Acute care, hospital environment
but LPNs are also engaged and work in nursing homes
where they might even take more of supervisiory roll of nursing attendence
they are involved in education
they are involved in private clinics as well as doctors' offices
LPNs going home care
there is quite a variety of settings
when we hired the into the ? of LPNs
we are looking for people who are highly motivated to learn new skills
we do get the LPNs to work within their scope to the highest degree of thier scope
as for port by the College of Licensed Practical Nurses
we want staff members who are excited to learn
we want staff members who are approach and challenge and looking for new experiences
and to get out there to help people
advanced an opportunity is we perhapse rull out more in a space
where you might supervise over nursing attendance depending on the practice setting
you might advance your practice by specializing
you can go into becoming an orthotech is what they call
you would learn how to put a cast on patient and how to cut those off
so very specialized to orthopedics
you can also take a program that allows you to work in operating room
you will assis in there, you get things ready
and then you are specialized just in that area
There are opportunities of course for you to expend your own knowledge
work into any particular specialization exist with nursing
As a nurse there has to be a balance because when you work with your patients
who are acutely ill you can take home their sorrow and their burden their disease
and when you do that you burn out, so you have to be able to some what
check it at the door, be able to go home and spend time in leisure
that helps you maintain a healthy mind
so when you come back the next day
You are refreshed and you better able to help that patient
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I'm very happy that I decided to persue that dream of mine to become an LPN
and what I find most satisfing about being a nurse is that
it really did make a difference
it makes diffrence to that one person, to that family
if you chose to become an LPN which I think is a darn good thing
be prerare you are always be a nurse
you have to be called to the job and then you like it
if you are not, it won't fit
you have to be well suited and when you are, it's the best thing you can do
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