Being an LVN nurse is so Much More!
Date: August 3, 2017
What will their practice bring to them and their families, to their patients and coworkers? We have trained these future LVN nurses on a healthcare professional’s science of medicine and practices. We have raised them to be sensitive to others’ needs and to be caring and compassionate persons. Not only that, but we have coached them to be good and understanding listeners and to be effective teachers.
Yes, teachers. We don’t normally think of healthcare professionals as educators, but they are. Instructing and training patients and their families on adjusting their lives to their new health conditions is a big part of being a nurse in modern days. An LVN nurse must teach a newly diagnosed diabetic self-injection with insulin and follow a strict diet and medication schedule.
An LVN nurse must educate a dialysis patient on carefully following the appropriate diet and attending procedures. An LVN nurse must train a caregiver or a family member of a post-stroke geriatric patient to give them at-home tube feeding and take care of that gastrostomy. Nurses are educators too.
Education is a part of the compassionate nature of this profession. However, treating the sick and the helpless as more than a medical chart, but rather as a special person, who has loved ones, a history of the past, and plans for the future, makes a truly great LVN nurse.
LVN nurse duties
Being a nurse is more than administering injections on time, passing out meal trays, and giving nursing reports. A great nurse will hug a dying child’s mother to give her emotional and spiritual support when she needs it the most. A great nurse will take a moment to hear an older adult’s story about his beloved wife, who passed away last year, whom he misses so much.
A great nurse will embrace a sick child who misses his mother while at a Children’s Hospital’s pediatric care unit. Yes, being a nurse is so much more. This is why these students chose an LVN program as their plan for their future, taking charge of their life, and helping the lives of others.
So, here they are, the graduating LVN class of 2010. They may not know it yet, but they are so much more to those who will need them. To listen with compassion, sympathize with their suffering, and hold their hand during times of physical pain and emotional agony. To those patients, these nurses are teachers, mothers, friends, and heroes.
