| Have you recently graduated from high school and | | | | refer to services that you provide that promote a |
| are not sure what your next step should be for | | | | patient's health, to prevent or cure an illness or to |
| education? Are you someone working in a career | | | | alleviate the symptoms of a health issue. |
| that has become uninspiring, and you are looking to | | | | After your course work is complete, the next step in |
| make a change? With online college and university | | | | becoming an LPN is to take the NCLEX-PN exam. This |
| courses, you can go to school at your convenience | | | | is a licensing exam with the full name of National |
| and work at your own pace to learn a new career. If | | | | Council Licensure Examination for Practical Nurses, and |
| you enjoy working with people, you might want to | | | | it enables you to work in facilities that hire LPNs. LPNs |
| consider taking classes to become a licensed practical | | | | also must maintain their licensure by renewing their |
| nurse. Online nursing degrees are offered by a wide | | | | license on a regular basis. |
| variety of colleges and universities, and receiving LPN | | | | Because LPNs are required to work under the |
| education could be your plan for an exciting new | | | | supervision of a doctor or a Registered Nurse, they |
| health care career. | | | | often work in clinics which provide the correct |
| Unlike other careers, becoming an LPN does not | | | | setting. LPNs enjoy patient interaction, and can |
| require a lengthy college tenure. Instead, LPN degrees | | | | perform blood pressure and temperature |
| typically can be completed in a short 12 to 24 | | | | measurements. They can also maintain patient |
| months. | | | | records, administer medication, assist with CPR, first |
| When you are studying to become an LPN, you will | | | | aid, certain surgery, and patient care planning. |
| participate in a variety of health-related courses that | | | | The advantage to participating in online nursing |
| focus on basic nursing care. These can include classes | | | | degrees is that you can work on much of the |
| in medications, physiology and anatomy, as well as | | | | coursework from the comfort of your home, on |
| practical patient care. Gross anatomy studies the | | | | your schedule, or even while you continue to work in |
| structures of the body that you can see. Physiology | | | | another profession. Online courses are fully accredited |
| covers how the body organs, such as the heart, and | | | | through colleges and universities and also offer the |
| systems, such as the endocrine and nervous | | | | support of faculty experts in the field of nurses' |
| systems, function. Medications covers the medicines | | | | training. Once you have become an LPN, if you wish |
| that are given to patients to help treat or prevent | | | | to further your education,online nursing degrees can |
| diseases, or that are given to a patient to aid in | | | | provide the convenience and opportunity you need |
| diagnosis of a medical condition. Patient care can | | | | to go further in your nursing career. |