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The 10 Least Stressful Nursing Jobs: Finding Balance in Your Career

Every Nurse

This role is often considered less stressful due to: Regular daytime hours with weekends and summers off Less intense patient care compared to hospital settings Focus on preventive care and health education Requirements typically include an RN license, pediatric nursing experience, and sometimes school nurse certification.

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Licensed Practical Nurses: Advancing, Succeeding & Achieving

American Nurse

There are over 630,000 active licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPNs) in the United States and 2,700 are in the State of Delaware. Over 171,000 LPNs work in long-term care facilities, which is ranked as the number one field of nursing that LPNs are offered employment. References Jones, C. McCollum, M.,

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It Took a Village: New Mother and Psychiatric Nurse Earns MSN Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Post University

When Mercy Irura graduated high school in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2003, she did what many of her classmates did and enrolled in an associate degree program in Business Information Technology at Strathmore University. Once she had settled in, Mercy enrolled in a licensed practical nurse program.

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The Power of Nursing Bridge Programs: How to Advance Your Education With the Right Degree

Post University

These span the full spectrum of nursing education, beginning with aspiring licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and extending through elite levels of practice such as the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN). Many nursing bridge courses are available entirely online, with self-directed classes accommodating your busy work schedule.

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LPNs in modified care delivery models – Reader and Author Responses

American Nurse

However, there are significant errors, the worse one being defining LPNs as “licensed professional nurses” instead of “licensed practical nurses.” Needleman published an influential paper in Health Affairs, Nurse staffing in hospitals: Is there a business case for quality? That was an error our team should have caught.

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How to Become a Registered Nurse

Every Nurse

Before you can begin working as a registered nurse, you must complete a series of steps that will take several years to gain the necessary education, clinical training, and experience you need to meet the requirements for testing, licensing, and certification. We have outlined six primary steps to become an RN below: 1.

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Pennsylvania PACU Nurse Redefines Her Passion Through Education

Post University

It is a childhood dream fulfilled…a passion she has had from her first experience as a Licensed Practical Nurse. After graduating high school in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, she completed an LPN program and started her career at Mercy Hospital in Scranton. To Dorothy Ephault, nursing is much more than a job.