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Pediatric Care
The Licensed Practical Nurse program is a full time one year program. This program will prepare individuals to provide fundamental nursing skills in healthcare for sick, injured, convalescent, disabled, and terminal individual patients/clients under the directions of physicians, physicians' assistants, nurse practitioners, and registered nurses. The students' training is based on the role of the practical nurse as defined by the Illinois Nurse Practice Act (sec 55-30). The students are prepared to provide practical nursing assistance in structured healthcare settings where policies and procedures are specified and guidance is available in areas as basic bedside care and taking of vital signs - examples are temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration. They are also prepared to evaluate and monitor patients/clients, provide injections, prepare and administer enemas, prepare patients/clients for EKG tests, monitor catheters, apply dressings, for treatment regimen for bedsores and pressure ulcers, collect urine samples, and perform simple laboratory tests. The program includes clinical rotations under various topics in caring for the human being including medical/surgical, pediatrics, maternal/child, and mental health clients/patients.

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