Nursing - Practical Nurse (LPN) - CERT C
A program that prepares individuals to assist in providing general nursing care under the direction of a registered nurse, physician, or dentist. Includes instruction in taking patient vital signs, applying sterile dressings, patient health education, and assistance with examinations and treatment.
Careers
Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) provide basic nursing care under the direct supervision of registered nurses and doctors. LPNs are in demand in several industries throughout the global workforce. Most LPNs work in healthcare facilities, including hospitals, doctors' offices, and long-term care facilities. Duties usually include providing routine care, observing patient's health, assisting doctors and registered nurses, and communicating with patients and their families.
Program Outcomes
- Provide nursing care that is relationship-centered, caring, culturally sensitive and based on the physiological, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of clients with commonly occurring health alterations that have predictable outcomes.
- Collaborate with the client and members of the interprofessional health care team to promote continuity of client care and shared decision making.
- Use current evidence as a basis for nursing practice.
- Use information and client care technology to support the delivery of safe, quality client care.
- Participate in quality improvement activities assessing their effect on client outcomes.
- Provide an environment that is safe and reduces risk of harm for clients, self, and others.
- Demonstrate accountability for client care that incorporates legal and ethical principles regulatory guidelines, and standards of nursing practice.
- Use leadership skills that support the provision and coordination of client care.
Accreditation
Kansas State Board of Nursing
900 SW Jackson St., Room 1051
Topeka, KS 66612
785-296-4924
Hutchinson Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
