Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) are important members of the healthcare team in both acute-care hospitals and long-term facilities. In both areas they may work with RNs and nursing assistants, while in long-term facilities they may also assume leadership roles. No matter where they practice LPNs can have a big impact on the quality of care[…]
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Surprising Career Options for People with an LPN Diploma
Students who pursue LPN careers carve out dependable career paths for themselves, since there is such a great need for nurses throughout healthcare. People who choose to get their LPN diploma may end up working in a more traditional setting like a hospital or doctor’s office. However, nurses may end up finding interesting careers in[…]
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Clinical Document Improvement (CDI) Trends in Medical Coding
Interested in becoming a medical billing and coding specialist? An area that a medical billing and coding specialist must work with other medical professionals to improve accuracy is clinical documentation and medical coding. Both of these elements of a medical billing and coding specialist’s job are increasingly important to health care providers as they work[…]
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How to Make a Difference as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
Licensed practical nurses provide primary nursing care to their patients. They work under the guidance and authority of nurses and doctors. The LPN wants to make a difference in the lives of the patients. They promote the patient’s well-being and optimum health by preventing diseases, easing pain and promoting health. To give their best when[…]
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Using Structured Reflection to Learn from Experience: An LPN Guide
Nursing and the clinical world are full of learning experiences. Although licensed practical nurses (LPN)s undertake formal training and keep skills updated through courses, there is so much more to learning and development. With a wealth of experience to learn from one of the best ways for LPNs to be able to develop in the[…]
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How Licensed Practical Nurses Can Implement Change in Their Department
Healthcare is an ever-changing industry. Many procedures that were once commonplace are now obsolete. Some changes require organizations to work collaboratively and are very complex. There are, however, lots of other changes in practice that make a big difference to patients that licensed practical nurses can do within a clinical team. Here’s how to make[…]
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How Predictive Analytics is Transforming the Legal Industry
Are you interested in the law and working with big data? The demand for paralegals is growing, even with the introduction of predictive analytics into the legal industry. A paralegal’s job is demanding, and predictive analytics only helps the paralegal do and manage more. This makes them even more valuable in the legal industry. One[…]
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Find Your Passion Helping Others with a Massage Therapy Career
There are those who have great compassion for people with a life goal to enrich the lives of others. For those people, there is nothing more rewarding than having a career that helps and enriches their clients. One of the most gratifying careers that falls into this category is massage therapy. Not only do you[…]
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How Nurses Keep Patients Hydrated in the Hospital
In a hospital setting it is surprisingly easy for older people and sick patients to become dehydrated as a consequence of their illness. Dehydration leads to confusion, headaches, infections, and acute kidney injury. The nurse along with the CNA have a critical role in checking the status of patients and preventing dehydration from occurring. This[…]
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Why Competent Medical Billing and Coding Professionals Are Invaluable
Medical billing and coding professionals convey complex information regarding a patient’s diagnoses, procedures, prescriptions, and equipment into alphanumeric codes and then transfer them into the billing databases and patient records. These separate tasks may be handled by several different medical billing and coding professionals. Most people overlook or are completely unaware that all of this[…]
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