Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)
LVN duties - ANSWER- provide care under physicians & RNs directions
- focus on patients mental, physical, & emotional needs
- foundation of health care
Nursing skills - ANSWERcommunication, empathy, physical endurance, critical thinking
skills, emotional stability, attention to detail, assertiveness
Ethical principles - ANSWERbeneficence, no-maleficence, autonomy, veracity, fidelity,
justice
What places employee LVNs? - ANSWERhospitals, long-term facilities, clinics, rehab
centers, public health agencies, home health care agencies, schools, gov. agencies
Nurse Practicioner (NP) - ANSWER- 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
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) - ANSWER- 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
RN responsibilities - ANSWER- assesses patient's needs
- patient advocate
- monitors patients
- administers prescribed medications/treatments
- reports to other health care personnel
- supervises & delegate other nursing personnel
LVN duties - ANSWER- provide care under physicians & RNs directions
- focus on patients mental, physical, & emotional needs
- foundation of health care
Nursing skills - ANSWERcommunication, empathy, physical endurance, critical thinking
skills, emotional stability, attention to detail, assertiveness
Ethical principles - ANSWERbeneficence, no-maleficence, autonomy, veracity, fidelity,
justice
What places employee LVNs? - ANSWERhospitals, long-term facilities, clinics, rehab
centers, public health agencies, home health care agencies, schools, gov. agencies
Nurse Practicioner (NP) - ANSWER- 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
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) - ANSWER- 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
RN responsibilities - ANSWER- assesses patient's needs
- patient advocate
- monitors patients
- administers prescribed medications/treatments
- reports to other health care personnel
- supervises & delegate other nursing personnel
