What does it mean to be a licensed practical nurse or a licensed vocational nurse?
As a licensed practical or vocational nurse, you care for people who are convalescing, disabled, injured, or sick under the direction of other healthcare personnel such as doctors or nurses. You may provide help with hygiene, take height, weight, temperature, respiration and pulse readings, give massages, dress wounds, and so on. You may also help patients stand or walk when necessary. As you continue in your career, you may also provide supervision to those who are nursing aides or assistants. Overall, your job when working in director jobs is to supervise, monitor and help patients wherever they need. You may also take information from patients like health histories and current health status. You give this information to registered nurses and doctors so that they can determine how best to treat a patient. You may also work in teaching capacity, whereby you teach friends or relatives of patients to care for them or teach about good health habits or other necessary skills. Some states
