Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)

Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)
1. LVN duties - provide care under physicians & RNs directions
- focus on patients mental, physical, & emotional needs
- foundation of health care
2. Nursing skills communication, empathy, physical endurance, critical
thinking skills, emotional stability, attention to detail, assertiveness
3. Ethical principles beneficence, no-maleficence, autonomy, veracity, fidelity,
justice
4. What places employee LVNs?
hospitals, long-term facilities, clinics, rehab centers, public
health agencies, home health care agencies, schools, gov.
agencies
5. Nurse Practicioner (NP)
- physical examination
- order lab test & other procedures
- refer patients to other specialists
- establish treatment plans
- treat common illnesses
- teach & promote optimal health
- write Rx
- Master's or Doctorate (education)
- salary: $64,300-$138,900
6. Certified
Registered
Nurse
Anesthetist
(CRNA)
- provide anesthetics to patients in every practice setting,
& for every type of surgery/procedure
(education)
- Bachelors degree
- 2 years min working in ICU
- graduate with Masters Degree from a state approved
Anesthesia program
- salary: $146,570