About Different Types of Nurses

Series Summary

A nurse is a health care professional that treats, prevents and educates individuals with chronic or acute illnesses or injuries. Focusing on recovery, the nursing profession is one of the most vital and noble medical careers. Nurses are there at birth, and they are there at death. However, the nursing career doesn't begin and end at the hospital. Many nurses work in medical research, community clinics, doctor's offices and their own clinics. To become a member of the nursing profession, certain requirements must be met. However, the most important qualification in nursing is the desire to help individuals. Thankfully, thousands of people choose to join this profession every year. Nurses are the largest group of providers in the health care system with over two million registered nurses. In this free video series on nursing careers, a licensed practical nurse explains the duties and requirements of being a nurse. Learn how much nurses make, what classes are required of nurses and what a nurse does on a daily basis. Find out about the hottest medical careers and learn about different types of nursing specialties. Anyone interested in becoming a nurse can benefit from the information provided in this free video series.

Video Transcript

"My name is Concessa Hunziger and I am a LPN. I work for Heartland Occupational Medicine and I have been doing this for about a year and a half now. I have been a nurse for over ten years. There are different types of nurses. You can be an OB nurse, a Pediatric nurse. You can work in clinics like what I do in Occupational medicine but then there is also Internal medicine. There is geriatrics, psychiatric. You can work with infectious disease. You can work with, there is just all kinds out there that you can do and there are some Ear, Nose and Throat. There are some though that only RN's can work because they are a little more specialized. What they do LPN's a lot of times deal with the direct patient care and that type of things and when you have an RN there a lot of times they deal with the drugs that we can't do that we have been trained to use and IV pushes and things like that, we're not able to do, LPN's aren't. When you deal with the heart and cardiac and stuff like that they have a little more training than what we do so it just kind of depends. Thank you for watching. My name is Concessa Hunziger. I'm a LPN and I work for Heartland Occupational Medicine."