A Licensed Vocational Nurse or LVN normally works under the supervision of a physician or a Registered Nurse, but the duties and licensing vary from state to state. Generally the program is approximately twelve to fourteen months depending on the state for licensure and is a stepping stone to becoming a registered nurse. The LVN [...]
Looking for that perfect career, one that helps others while keeping you employed in something you enjoy doing? Maybe nursing is for you. By definition, nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in [...]
A Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist or CRNA must have a Bachelors Degree and be a Registered Nurse with a minimum of one year of experience as an acute care nurse. It requires a graduate program that takes between two to three years to complete and although it is not a Masters Degree, you will be [...]
One nursing alternative that many people find extremely gratifying as a career is working as a home health aide. These professionals do many of the same types of work as regular nurses–and even doctors–but in people’s homes. Primarily their clients are the elderly and those with long-term disabilities and / or illnesses. Home health aides [...]
The nice thing about a nursing career is that there is really a lot of flexibility in terms of your specialty or the type of nursing that you pursue and some specialties offer built-in flexibility in terms of hours or the ability to work from home. For example, if you work for a home health [...]
Being a nurse requires the responsibility and care of the patient and involves five steps no matter what type of nurse you are. These steps include assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of the patient because nurses are involved with just about all of a patient’s care.
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