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| What is an Licensed Vocational Nurse?
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Vocational Nursing is a respected, rewarding career that allows you to help people each and every day while you earn a great living.
Licensed practical nurses (LPNs), or licensed vocational nurses (LVNs), care for the sick, injured, convalescent, and disabled under the direction of physicians and more highly trained nurses.
It's a career that offers opportunities with high demand for qualified nurses in hospitals, doctors' offices, clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, and emergency medical centers, schools, colleges, home health agencies and convalescent homes.
About 28 percent of LVNs worked in hospitals, 26 percent in nursing care facilities, and another 12 percent in offices of physicians.
Others worked for home healthcare services, employment services, community care facilities for the elderly, public and private educational services, outpatient care centers, and Federal, State, and local government agencies; about 1 in 5 worked part time.
It's also a great first step for those considering further advancement in nursing or the medical profession. |
posted by blogger @ 20:20
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| Vocational Nurse LVN job search tips
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Evaluate: Carefully review job openings. What are the requirements?
Research: Learn about the organization; does it match your interests and beliefs.
The Job: Location and hours, do they fit within yourschedule, your family etc.;
Does the job make good use of your skills; where do you fit within the organization?
Opportunities: A good job will offer opportunities to learn new skills, increase earnings and rise in position of greater authority and re-sponsibility.
Salary Benefits: Is the offer fair? What is the benefit package and your portion of the cost of the package?
Apply: Be proactive and aggressive. Follow-up with the nurse recruiter once you have submitted your application.
Demonstrate: You are serious and focused on your career.Making careful deci-sions is now a part of your life. Making good decisions comes by performing solid research on your options. |
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posted by blogger @ 16:13
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| Your options as a new nurse
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As a new nurse, you are re-sponsible in driving your career and must be aggressive when it comes to the progress of your career endeavors.
As an LVN, you have the option of contacting a variety of facilities and/or type of employers.
The list below is only asmall list of facilities you have the opportunity to apply for once you have received your license:
Acute Care (Hospitals)
Sub-Acute Care
Long Term Care Clinics
Private Duty
The question depends on which type of employer or facility is best for you? Some questions which may help you determine the type of position you are after are:
What hours are you able to work? 12 hour/3 days per week; part time, fulltime?
What kind of facility allows you to utilize your nursing skills?
Is money your driving force or is there a specific type of nursing experience you desire?
Once you have more clearly defined what is important to your career at this time, you will make the best decision.
Many nurses also opt to work several part time jobs, which provides them with greater experience at a vari-ety of healthcare settings.
(by Gustavo Espinoza) |
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posted by blogger @ 16:10
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| LVN Program Fees
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LVN Program Fees are different in different schools. Just few examples:
Cost of program 1
The following is an estimate of program costs broken down by semester:
Tuition is $300 per semester; $900 total
practice Insurance $30
Lab Fee/Misc. Fees (approx.) 35.00
Uniforms (approx.) $100
Textbooks (approx.) $850
Post Graduation State Board Fees $300
*Approximate Total Cost of Program is $2500
Cost of program 2
Vocational Nursing: Fees - $200 non-refundable application fee +$600 non-refundable textbook fee + $3,000 consumable supplies and equipment fees + $3,750 administrative expense + $13,050 tuition = $20,600 total fees due from student.
Cost of program 3
Fees: Tuition is $416/semester for California residents. Nominal fees are charged for student health insurance and I.D. cards.
Students should plan on spending approximately $3000 during the LVN Program for tuition, uniforms, books, and the required physical examination and immunizations. Since the clinical portion of the program is taught at local hospitals, students must have reliable transportation to these sites and should budget for these expenses. |
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posted by blogger @ 11:26
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| Licensed Vocational Nurse LVN program prerequisites
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In order to enroll, you must be chosen for admittance by the admissions committee, be at least 17 years of age, have earned a high school diploma or its equivalent and have completed a certified nursing assistant or clinical medical assistant course. Competency in, or completion of, a basic computer operations course is required.
Students will complete a minimum of 1530 hours of study. Before the clinical experience begins each participant will be required to show proof of completion of CPR for the healthcare provider, proof of a current physical examination, tuberculosis screening, background check, drug testing and immunizations. Obtaining CPR, physical, TB screening and immunizations is the student's responsibility. |
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posted by blogger @ 11:15
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