Licensed Practical Nurses
Other titles : operating room technician, R.N.A. (registered nursing assistant), surgical technician - nursing, technical assistant - operating room (health and social services network)
Details
Description :
Licensed practical nurses provide nursing care usually under the direction of medical practitioners, registered nurses, or other health team members. They are employed in hospitals, nursing homes, extended-care facilities, rehabilitation centres, doctors' offices, clinics, companies, private homes and community health centres.
Main duties :
- provide nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures;
- perform nursing interventions such as taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques including sterile dressing, ensuring infection control, monitoring nutritional intake and conducting specimen collection;
- administer medication and observe and document therapeutic effects;
- provide pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care;
- provide safety and health education to individuals and their families.
Regions where this career
has the best propspects:
- Bas-Saint-Laurent
- Centre-du-Québec
- Montérégie
- Laurentides
- Lanaudière
- Laval
- Chaudière-Appalaches
- Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine
- Nord-du-Québec
- Côte-Nord
- Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Outaouais
- Montréal
- Estrie
- Mauricie
- Capitale-Nationale
- Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
Training
Diploma of Vocational Studies (DVS)
Health, Assistance and Nursing Care
Program lenght : 2 years
Program Objectives
To acquire the knowledge, ability and attitude necessary to differentiate between health and illness; acquire the knowledge and ability to understand and apply the techniques learned, establish a helping role with those with health needs, engage in team work within the modern health organizationion, communicate effectively with patients and their family, with superiors and with other health team members.
Where this program is available