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Jumpstart Your Medical Career

If you are thinking of starting a professional career in medicine, you will want to balance the length of time you will be required to study, the amount of debt you will need to take on while you are studying, and the future wages you will earn. If you don’t have much time and you can’t afford to take on much debt, you might want to consider a career that can be yours with less than one year of study, but that will still pay a professional wage. One of the quickest medical careers that you can qualify for is that of the Licensed Practical Nurse.

LPNs differ from RNs in that their training is less detailed, and they are therefore able to perform fewer types of procedures, and they have less discretionary power over their patients. As an LPN, you will be carrying out the orders of other medical professionals, mostly from physicians and RNs. You are qualified to give injections of medicine and to do other types of medical treatments and procedures. Your LPN Training will cover all of the basic types of treatment that you will be allowed to perform once you are licensed. This can vary from state to state, depending on the guidelines set out by your state’s Board of Nursing.

If you work in a Nursing Home setting or at another type of long-term care facility, part of your job description might require you to supervise the lower-level nurse aides. The type of work you do will vary according to your actual employment situation, but will probably include things like dressing wounds or surgery sites, dispensing patient medications, and assisting patients with their medical self-care, as well as helping them with a variety of personal tasks such as dressing and bathing, and perhaps walking and eating.

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