Nursing Concepts

100 and More Things To Know

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NCLEX-PN

Congratulations to All Batch 2007 NCLEX-PN Passers

1. Dezra Leonard
2. Latresha Bramwell
3. Lawrence – Ejor Ogbogu
4. Jennifer Montano
5. Justyna Padilla
6. Zaldy David
7. Debbie Murphy
8. Wendy Kowzloski
9. Stephanie W-
10. Saint
11. Maritza Fedak
12. Terence Gibson
13. Linette Gibson
14. Lisa Meade
15. Jenni Pilla

Pinning & Exit Exam

Pinning ceremony for LPN-Eve Sept. ‘05 will be held at Elli’s on Whitney - Hamden on Dec. 12, 2007 Wednesday at 5:30PM.

Exit Exam will be on Monday December 17, 2007. ( We will all PASS) 

CT. Nurse Practice Act

Sec. 20-87a. Definitions. Scope of practice. (a) The practice of nursing by a registered nurse is defined as the process of diagnosing human responses to actual or potential health problems, providing supportive and restorative care, health counseling and teaching, case finding and referral, collaborating in the implementation of the total health care regimen, and executing the medical regimen under the direction of a licensed physician, dentist or advanced practice registered nurse.
 weblink: http://www.cga.ct.gov/2005/pub/Chap378.htm#Sec20-87.htm

ATI

Are you a visual learner?

Does seeing it mean remembering it? If so, you’ll appreciate the ATI-PLAN^® DVD Series. Maybe you haven’t yet seen an intravenous-line insertion and hope you’ll get to see it before you actually have to do it! Well, you’ll see it here – again and again, as many times as you’d like!

Even if you don’t think of yourself as a visual learner, you’ll enjoy the rich detail presented right before your eyes in this newly revised DVD series. It’s the perfect complement to your classroom instruction and works especially well as an end-of-course review. ATI’s DVDs cover all the major nursing general and specialty areas, and you can view them on a television, a portable DVD player, or a computer.

These fully navigational DVDs include demonstrations, graphics, and auditory explanations to reinforce essential nursing information. You can use the navigational buttons to find topics of interest quickly as you review. It’s just one more way ATI helps you navigate your NCLEX^® preparation!

(excerpt from ATI TESTING WEBSITE)

STUDENT DAY

 The Passion and Compassion of Nursing!

The Connecticut League for Nursing is hosting it’s 27th annual  LPN Student Day at the Aqua Turf on Monday November 19, 2007 from 8:00AM – 2:30PM.

NCLEX-PN

The NCLEX-PN (National Council Licensure EXamination-Practical Nurse) is a computer adaptive test of entry-level nursing competence. Passing the exam is required of candidates for licensure as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) by all continental US state .

Practical Nursing

The Licensed Practical Nurse plays an important role in a client’s plan of care. Though they are not allowed to develop the actual plan of care, they do make important contributions to it. The LPN’s contributions to the plan of care consists of the collection of data, implementing therapeutic nursing measures, performing therapeutic nursing interventions and using ethical decision making within the guidelines of the Nurse Practice Act to provide care.