What's the difference between associates nurse and baccaularete Nurse?
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The 4-year BSN is preferred by most nursing leaders and provides the best opportunities in today's job market. If you look in the classifieds, you'll find that a BSN is a requirement for many positions. It is the entry point for professional nursing practice. \n\nThe 2-year Associate Degree focuses more on technical skills than theory and is often a stepping stone to the BSN. It allows a student to become a Registered Nurse and earn money more quickly than a 4-year BSN program, so it works better for many students. It is the entry point for technical nursing practice. \n\nIf you are looking to hold big leadership roles such as manger, Directors or advance you degree in nursing then BSN. If you are just looking to find a job with no leadership advancement then associate.\n\nPersonally BSN is the way to go because most hospital are requiring that nursing obtain BSN in state like New York and Boston\n\nhopes this help
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Male nurses are called " Nurse Assistants" and "Staff Nurses" and otherwise identical names for grades up to when they reach " Sisterhood " - here they assume the title of "Charge Nurse" to avoid being called " Sister " (or "Brother", I guess). Unfortunately, above this, as some do get, there is no male replacement for the "Modern Matron" and thats what they must put up with-.
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I think nursing is the harder of the two jobs..you need to have thick skin, and can't be the squeeming type...the hours may not always be great, but you can sure make some money doing it.  Don't do it for the money, do it because you want to, or because your interested in helping people.
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CNA is a certified Nursing Assistant. The first level of Nursing. LPN Licensed Practical Nurse is the second level, CNA's are usually the ones doing the less invasive stuff, like cleaning patients, feeding patients, and taking vital signs. LPN's can start IV lines give certain medications. CNA's won't replace LPN's.
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Your local health department or hospital should be able to connect you with the local Visiting Nurses Association.  In addition to services they provide, the VNA often has a list of private duty nurses and home health assistants that you can hire privately to come to the home and clean, make meals, or even stay the night with your mom.\n\nGood luck to you.
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The nurse is registered.
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Nurses are not mute “doctor’s handmaidens” or “helpers”. Neither are they mere “Nancy Do Gooders”, “Angels of Mercy”, dumb bimbos, sex toys for residents, or servants who perform a plethora of menial tasks “after getting approval from a doctor”. \n\n\nNursing is a self-governing scientific healthcare discipline practiced by professionals who have received between two to ten years of formal university education taught by nurse educators prepared at the Master’s or Doctoral level, successfully passed state board of nursing examinations, and in many cases have additional education and certification in specialty areas of nursing practice. \n\nNursing is a distinct and autonomous healthcare profession with its own unique standards of practice, scope of practice, and professional organizations that practices in collaboration with the Medical profession in addition to the Allied Health Professions as part of the health care team.\n\nNurses serve as chief executive officers of corporations and hospitals, on boards of directors, teach in the community health setting as well as in PhD Nurse Educator roles in Universities and help develop policies that guide the course of healthcare delivery.
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The training and work of a Medical Assistant is focused on the outpatient medical office environment. In contrast, Nurses (LPN and RN) are primarily trained to work in an inpatient acute care or long-term care medical environment.
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Advanced Practice Nurses.. Reaad on, i have a lot of info :)\n\nLicensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) are also known as Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVNs) in California and Texas. These individuals usually have eighteen months to two years of training in anatomy and physiology, medications, and practical patient care. They must pass state or national boards and renew their license periodically.\n\nLPNs can perform simple as well as complex medical procedures but must operate under the supervision of either a Registered Nurse or a physician. They can administer most medications (usually with the exception of IV push medications), perform measurements (blood pressure, temperature, etc.), keep records, perform CPR, maintain sterile and isolation conditions, and administer basic care.\n\nLPNs are often found working under the supervision of physicians in clinics. In long term care facilities, they sometimes supervise nursing assistants and orderlies.\n\nThe Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were about 700,000(1) persons employed as Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses in the U.S. in 2004.\n\nRegistered Nurses (RNs) are professional nurses who often supervise the tasks performed by LPNs, orderlies and nursing assistants. They provide direct care and make decisions regarding plans of care for individuals and groups of healthy, ill and injured people. They have a Diploma, Associate Degree, or Bachelors Degree in Nursing at entry level, and after passing state board examininations are granted the title Registered Nurse. Regardless of degree, RNs have many hours of clinical experience before they are graduated.\n\nRNs are the largest group of healthcare workers in the U.S. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were about 2.3 million (1) persons employed as Registered Nurses in the U.S. in 2004.\n\nResearch has shown that RNs are the first-line defense of hospitalized patients against disability or death from infection, cardiopulmonary arrest, and other serious complications. Higher ratios of registered nurses to patients have been shown to decrease certain complications of illness and mortality rates. Registered Nurses are educators, managers, executives, therapists, intensive care experts, symptom managers, professional mentors, researchers and community members. In hospitals, registered nurses perform diverse roles such as writing policies, responding to emergencies, managing professional, technical and ancillary staff, determining budgets, performing strategic planning, and supervising construction projects.\n\nAdvanced practice nurses (APNs) are Registered Nurses with advanced education, knowledge, skills, and scope of practice. APNs possess a master's or doctoral degree in nursing and may also sit for additional certification examinations. APNs may function as a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), nurse practitioner (NP), clinical nurse specialist (CNS) or Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). They perform primary health care, provide mental health services, diagnose and prescribe, carry out research, and educate the public and other professionals. Some APNs diagnose illness and prescribe medication.\n\nAll advanced practice credentials have requirements such as continuing education and periodic re-examination to maintain the credential.\n\nAdvanced Practice Nurses can expect to earn above-average salaries, especially as the population of ages and the demand for highly-skilled healthcare workers grows proportionally.\n\nGood Luck! :)
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There are hundreds of different types of nurses just as there are lots of different specialities of doctors.  There are nurses on surgical wards, medical wards, orthopaedic wards, intensive care units, renal wards and units, operating theatres, A&E depts.  There are GP practice nurses, district nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse consultants, research nurses, rehab. nurses, out-patient nurses, health promotion nurses,nursing home nurses, hospice nurses and many many more.  Nurses are professionals who, as part of a team care for patients to promote recovery or make as comfortable as possible where recovery is not acheivable.  They make important decisions on the treatment of individuals and it's about time that they were recognised by the Government and the corrupt NHS managers (who haven't a clue what patients need)  for their important role!
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I'm a CNA right now.... I've been trying to figure out the same question. Should I become a nurse??? Well, I'm not. I'm enrolled in a 2 year course to get my associates degree in medical assisting. you get to help the doctor in the office or run the paperwork part of the office. I'm doing that then going for my physicians assistant which is bacholers degree.... good luck :o)
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An AB (Associates) is generally 2 years or 60 credit hours\nA BBA (Bachelors) is generally 4 years or 120 credit hours\nAn MBA (Masters) is generally 2 years or 60 hours\nA DBA (Doctorate) is generally 3 years or 90 hours.
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Well, they're very different from each other.  Maybe you should look at practical stuff, like nursing involves shift work, you will earn less as a nurse, you will probably have to do some pretty gross things as a nurse.  None of this applies to mechanical engineering.  Both careers help people, but in completely different ways.  Nursing attracts very special people who are more concerned with helping others, than in earning money or having a lot of free time for their families.
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Well,\n\nA nurse practitioner is usually a master's prepared nurse. Some nurse practitioners also have certificates, but I am pretty sure that has changed to a master's as a minimum requirement. A physician's assistant can have a certificate, but most have to be masters prepared. \n\nA nurse practitioner and physician's assistant have many of the same job responsibilities. Both answer to physicians. A nurse practitioner can write prescriptions in some states, physicians assistants may not.\n\nPhysicians assistants may have permission in some states to perform light surgical procedures. \n\nAlot of things depend on the rules in your state and the programs offered. This will require some research on your part.
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From a practical standpoint, the difference is a legal one.  Both are required to practice under the oversight of a physician (at least in most states, if not all) but the nurse practitioner is required to execute pre-provided protocols, created by a physician or group thereof; the physician's assistant has somewhat greater autonomy.\n\nFrom a practical standpoint, as a physician that has had to work as a supervisor both to advance practice nurses (which includes nurse practitioners) and physicians assistants, the difference is nearly nil: both end up doing whatever the supervising physician trusts them to do, with as much (or as little) autonomy as the physician is comfortable extending to them.  I've known some in both groups that functioned almost on a par with a physician.  I've known a few that thought they were on a par with a physician, and that weren't, by a very long ways.\n\nIn the long haul, the real difference isn't the label, it's the experience, wisdom and integrity of the person behind the label that counts.
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The neonatal nurse practitioner is not JUST an RN, there is additional studies required, most likely at least a masters degree. The nurse practitioner most likely spends more time with the actual patient and therefore knows more about the patient's current condition. The neonatologist will make more money, but will also be paying more malpractice insurance and will have responsibility over the patient's wellbeing, will visit the patient most likely one time a day.
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All depends where you live and what you need to do to get your nursing degree.\n\nThere is a nation-wide critical shortage of nurses.  It is only getting worse for the next few years.  Then as the population ages, we're still going to need more nurses.\n\nThe upshots are that you only need an associates to qualify for an RN, and that you are pretty much guaranteed a job as soon as you graduate.\n\nThe down side is that you must be able to do the (sometimes disgusting) various tasks required of nurses.