LPN are found to work in hospitals, clinics or private health care centers and in a variety of health care settings under physician’s supervision, sometime found supervising other nursing staff as well. It is seen under the LPN job description
that they made work of nurse practitioners and other nurses very easy. One can find them recognizing as RPN (Registered practical nurses) in Canada and Ontario, as SEN (Stat enrolled nurses) in UK, as LVN (Licensed vocational nurses) in Texas and California, and also as EN (enrolled nurses) in New Zealand and Australia. This job is defined as providing the patient with very personal caring.
Until these LPNs get the capability of best professionalism they are allowed to work only under the supervision of physicians but gradually after the passage of time they are even more responsible for this work even to do themselves only in coordination with those physicians. One can see them in health care settings as performing the job of treating patient’s wounds, moving patients to protect them from bedsores as well as doing some practical physician work like enemas and some others also. So this LPN job description can be overviewed as the basic bed side care!
LPNs provide the patient for some personal treatment like dressing, moving in bed, bathing standing, hygiene at personal level and also walking if possible. They are found measuring temperature, B.P, respiration rate, weight, height etc. massages, monitoring of catheters, alcohol rubbing and also injecting are some other role played by them. During even more professional duty they can also provide physicians the facility of performing regular lab tests, collection of samples for different medical tests as well as monitoring of fluid and food intake and output with the cleansing of the medical equipment for monitoring as it is included in the LPN job description.
As it was a fact, that during wars soldiers having wounds called them as the angel of care, they indeed provide this facility to the patient as it is noticed that regular and other registered hospital nurses haven’t much time for this extreme care. Depending upon the situation of law in a place, LPNs can also treat a patient with a medicine that is prescribed. After a minimum recovery of patient, LPNs also care for them in home and telling the family members about the care after her completion and situation of monitoring and giving medicine as it’s the part of LPN job description.
Their area of expertise is global as they work in hospitals, in many nursing homes, private home health care depending upon the medical requirement of patient and their working ability at these places. LPN job description also includes the maternal care before, during and after delivery. In addition, they can also be found as working for the feeding and caring of new born babies at hospital or maternity clinic or may be at home. So, it is them who provide facility to both, the patients and medical staff.