Do You Have The Passion For Nursing?
March 6, 2009 by Rn2b
Filed under Licensed Practical and Vocational Nurse (LPN/LVN)
Do You Have The Passion For Nursing?
Do you aspire to be a nurse or you want to increase your rank and knowledge in the fields of nursing? It is not impossible as long as you have the education to back you up. Nursing education may be or may not be hard as you think. If you’re passion is to take care of other individual and value one’s life, then you have a heart of a nurse.
You don’t have to undergo a long process if you just want to be able to know the proper way of assisting those who are sick and people who needs care and attention, most schools who offer nursing education gives their students the chance to be a certified nursing assistant in just 2months, that’s 1 month classroom setting and another 1 month for practicum. It’s that easy! Plus, you don’t have to pay much to get certified; this is beneficial to those people who just want to know the basics of nursing people.
If you want to work on nursing homes rather than hospitals, it is better to get a license so you will become a licensed practical nurse or a licensed vocational nurse. Most care centers hire these kinds of people. Hospitals on the other hand are looking for registered nurses rather than licensed nurses since registered nurses know how to activate machines in the hospitals and aid doctors during surgeons, and a lot more. They have more knowledge since most registered nurses are college graduates with a bachelor degree in nursing.
If you want to pursue nursing education, I suggest you pick the school that has a good reputation and record when it comes to the success of their nursing graduates so that you’ll know that your money will not go to waste.
The Highest Level of Nursing Practice
March 6, 2009 by Rn2b
Filed under Nurse Programs, Registered Nurse (RN)
The Highest Level of Nursing Practice
The topmost rank among the levels of nursing practice is to have a PhD; you can only attain this by studying a doctorate degree in Nursing. You cannot just attain this just by skipping other degrees, you should first consider taking a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree before proceeding to a doctorate degree.
Of course if you’re a nurse, it feels better to be a RN or a registered nurse; you can get that after passing the nursing licensure exam that is offered for graduating nursing students. But wouldn’t it feel so much better and more prestigious if you were carrying a PhD badge? To have a PhD is never easy; it entails determination, discipline and diligence. If you are planning to take a Doctor of Nursing Practice level, be sure you know what you’re getting in to because graduating with a PhD is not as easy as bachelor’s and master’s degree. The course normally includes clinical characteristic of nursing than academic study. This means that you go under advanced leadership practice; you apply what you’ve learned for you to become an advanced practice nurses.
There are several doctorate practices for nursing. You can take Doctors of Medicine or MD, or if you want to be more specific and you want to be a dentist, then I suggest you take Doctors of Dental Medicine. Other schools who offer doctorate degree have Doctor of Pharmacy, Doctors of Psychology, and a lot more. It’s your choice what you want to excel in. Surely, to have a doctorate degree will earn you respect and recognition in your workplace and everywhere you go.
The Different Levels of Nursing Practice
March 6, 2009 by Rn2b
Filed under Finding Your Nursing Job, Licensed Practical and Vocational Nurse (LPN/LVN)
The Different Levels of Nursing Practice
We all know that health care has always been in demand in our society due to aging. People need to be taken care of especially when they get old and dependent to other people who can aid them daily. It would be hard to walk alone when you’re 85; people who get sick and old seek attention and help. Nursing have become a growing profession nowadays that is why a lot of college students are taking Bachelor of Science in Nursing as their course to qualify in the different levels of nursing practice they have to undergo.
There are four (4) levels of nursing practice. The first and easiest to attain is to be a certified nursing assistant or CNA, however if you’re just a certified nursing assistant, your job description is very limited; you can’t even be an assistant of a doctor in the hospital. Sometimes you are even referred to as a nurse’s aid. More or less, what nursing aids do is to bathe the patients, dress them, clean them, and help them walk to the bathroom, etc. Their task is very basic.
The next level is the Licensed Practical Nurses and the Licensed Vocational nurses. In this level, the nurse still does the same task as those of a certified nursing assistant however LPNs or LVNs can analyze the patient’s condition whether it is improving or worsening.
The higher level to LPNs and LVNs are the Registered Nurses or RNs. They are the ones assisting the doctor in the hospital. Besides having the capacity to do all the tasks that are assigned to CNAs, LPNs, and LVNs, registered nurses can operate the machines in the hospitals they are assigned to.
The highest among the levels of nursing practice is the Advanced Practice Registered Nurses or APRNs. These people have certain specialties like CRNA or certified registered nurse anesthetist, CNM or certified Nurse Midwife, and a lot more.