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2. What is a Licensed Practical Nurse? - WebMD

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   An LPN may be the person who takes your vitals before the doctor comes in for your exam. General Hospitals. LPNs are most frequently in charge of responding to patient requests, giving medications ...

3. Licensed practical nurse - Wikipedia

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   A licensed practical nurse ( LPN ), in much of the United States and Canada, is a nurse who provide direct nursing cares for people who are sick, injured, convalescent, or disabled. In the United States, LPNs work under the direction of physicians, mid-level practitioners, and may work under the direction of registered nurses depending on their ...

4. Allied health professions - Wikipedia

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   Allied health professions (AHPs) are a group of health care professions that provide a range of diagnostic, technical, therapeutic, and support services in connection with health care, and which are distinct from the fields of dentistry, optometry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy . In providing care as an AHP, their work may support non-AHP ...

5. List of professional designations in the United States

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   must hold a current, unrestricted practical/vocational nurse license in the United States or its territories and must have hospice and palliative licensed practical/vocational nursing practice of 500 hours in the most recent 12 months or 1000 hours in the most recent 24 months prior to applying for the examination.

6. Nurses: Overworked and Understaffed on the Front Lines

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   A 2014 survey of more than 3,300 nurses found that they were stressed, overworked, underappreciated, and underutilized. Of those nurses surveyed by the Vickie Milazzo Institute in Houston, 64 ...

7. Orville Lynn Majors - Wikipedia

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   Indiana. Date apprehended. 1997. Orville Lynn Majors (April 24, 1961 – September 24, 2017) was a licensed practical nurse and serial killer who was convicted of murdering his patients in Clinton, Indiana. Though he was tried for only seven murders and convicted of six, he was believed to have caused additional deaths between 1993 and 1995 ...