What are the duties of a licensed practical nurse?

Answer 1

The LPN is skilled in many areas of nursing and depending upon the state or area they are working can do (more or less): wound irrigation, dressing changes, giving a patient medications ordered by a doctor (including injections), assessing a patient for problems, assisting a patient with the activities of daily living, and educating patients. Also in some areas the LPN is also allowed to start IVs or give IV medications (again, this depends upon the state or area the LPN is practicing in). The LPN is almost always required to work under a doctor, registered nurse, or advanced practice nurse (a nurse who has gone on for more licensure and schooling above the standard RN duties).

Answer 2

My mum is a registered nurse and being a nurse you can get trained in many different things.

For instance:

-Midwifery and delivering babies

-Caring for babies

-Caring for sick kids

-Making beds for patients

-Being called to patients bedsides when they need the toilet/bedpan or drinks etc

-'Washing' old or sick patients

-Filling out medical charts and monitoring

-Transferring/moving patients

-Taking patients out for a smoke (the stupid patients who still smoke after having their internal organs mucked up by that very same thing)

-In Critical Care units, nurses may have to observe the one same patient for up to entire shifts at a time to make sure they are alright and they don't suffer breathing difficulties etc

-Nurses could work in dialysis units, connecting and monitoring patients hooked up to blood-cleaning machines

-Operation recovery rooms

-Re-dressing wounds

There are also other jobs, you could be a specialty nurse for something, or there could be other jobs similar to this.

*Keep in mind, nurses work is shift-work, meaning there could be irregular hours (working 8 hours at night, then working 12 hours during daytime one day later).

Answer 3

Licensed practical nurses can perform a variety of duties either independently or as part of a health care team. Some of these duties include taking vital signs, preparing patients for surgery, providing nursing home care, and providing health education to people.