Help me find out which nursing position is right for me.

[Vicky Laursen]

Hi everyone, I need your help in trying to fit my qualifications into the nearest nursing level that fits my experience. You see, I have been going to school in Scandinavia and I am thinking of moving back to the USA (i am american). I am sure that some of my duties are nursing duties, but not all of them? Please tell me where I would "fit in" (CNA/LVN/LPN )Here are a list of my duties in my current "nursing job"..

• First I can tell you that to be in my current job position, I have learned Danish as a second language at 34yrs old ( i know. I cant use that for anything except that it shows that I am open to learning and speaking foreign languages).
  
• In my experience now as a nursing student I have been in school for a total of 3 yrs studying:
  
• Psykologi, Filosofi, sociologisocial studies,medicine,
  
• Pedagogy with psychology
  
• Pedagogy with psychology has focused on work-support and guidance in a respectful and equal cooperation with the individual. The teaching provides for, among other things:
  
• human development
  
• social norms, attitudes and prejudices
  
• physical, mental and social handicaps
  
• well-being and quality of life
  
• communication
  
• documentation and dissemination
  
• pedagogical methods
  
• more duties:
  
• performs nursing, rehabilitation and palliation in cycles of varying duration, for people with chronic conditions and severely ill and dieing.
  
• performing prescribed processing tasks by a licensed doctor
  
• observe patient condition and the effect of nursing and therapy
  
• provide citizen and patient directed health care and prevention in order to preserve and strengthen the individual and groups of individuals.
  
• to establish a good contact to the resident and their relatives which is a necessary prerequisite to providing health care that is based on the user's everyday life, wants and needs
  
• giving care in a balance between care and self-care, which takes the citizen resources and appropriate rehabilitative interventions
  
• involvement and cooperation with relevant healthcare partners, providing maximum, care together, providing continuitet in the resident/pt healthcare process
  
• to cooperate with the patients own GP doctor on the implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and possibly adjustment and further treatment by the GP.
  
• more nursing duties are:
  
• care of the drain, catheter care, stomi care
  
• wound care, pain management, discharge / enema, peritoneal dialysis, medication administration, dosage, injection giving, pain patches, eyedrops, dispensing of medication to mentally ill citizens and those with mental health problems, observation of medication and sideffects, medication review with their own GP, pre dosed medicine, counseling, follow-up and observations.
  
• care for seriously ill and death, care, pain relief, fluid behandling, diet, alleviation of symptoms and care that promotes welfare, and caring for relatives
  
• development of healthcare plans
  
• follow-up blood test checks/results
  
• blood pressure -control
  
• glucose profiles
  
• care and support with a focus on people with chronic sickness, citizens without social networks and citizens with special social and psychological needs and the interaction with relatives.
  

so if you are still reading this... tell me what your thoughts are. thanks!

[Mrs. Sparkle Pants]

Well, if you want to be an LVN/LPN you would have to graduate from an LVN/LPN program, which would mean seeing which of your current credits will transfer. If you want to be a CNA, you would have to take a class and a test to be certified. I'm not sure if you can skip the class and just take the test, maybe someone else will know? Either way, for those positions you have to be licensed/certified so there will be some hoops to jump through before you can do either.

[Vicky Laursen]

seriously not thinking of schooling for another year. thats insane after i have been in school 3yrs already to be a nursing assistant.

[BrookeeLou_RN]

I would pick a college near where you want to relocate and email them about their LPN program, sent them transcripts and see if anything would transfer. If not check out about taking certification for CNA, get that, enroll in c=school and work as CNA. Gotta start somewhere! Best of luck to you.