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A licensed practical nurse (LPN), in much of the United States and Canada, is a nurse who provides direct nursing care for people who are sick, injured, convalescent, or disabled. In the United States, LPNs work under the direction of physicians , mid-level practitioners , and may work under the direction of registered nurses depending on their ...
State Enrolled Nurse (UK) – See Licensed Practical Nurse: SHO: Senior house officer (UK) SIGN: Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN and NICE are major centers of CPG development) SIOP: International Society of Paediatric Oncology SN: Student nurse SOMA: Student Osteopathic Medical Association: STFM: Society of Teachers of Family ...
Licensed Practical Nurse: LPN Licensed by a state board of nursing and works under the direction of a Registered Nurse Licensed Vocational Nurse: LVN Licensed by a state board of nursing and works under the direction of a Registered Nurse Nurse Practitioner: NP State licensed Advance Practice Registered Nurse Advanced Practice Nurse: APN
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
Registered nurse (RN) Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) Diploma in Nursing; Practical nurse (PN, LPN, VN) Certified anesthesiologist assistant (CAA)
Private duty nursing is the care of clients by nurses, who may be licensed as RNs (Registered Nurses) or LPNs/LVNs (Licensed Practical Nurses). In the late 19th and around the beginning of the 20th century, private duty nursing was seen as "the ultimate goal of a trained nurse, both internationally and in Australia".
Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions is a dictionary of health-related topics. The 8th edition, published in 2009, contains 2,240 pages and 2,400 colour illustrations. It includes some encyclopaedic definitions and 12 appendixes containing reference information. [1]
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes).This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).