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!

[Vicky Laursen]

I can see that alot of ppl read this thread, still no one has any ideas where my qualifications fit in , in this field?

[Skips, MSN, RN]

I'm a little confused what you are asking, but your job duties sound like LPN work more than CNA work. I hope this helped! (:

[Vicky Laursen]

im saying these are my job duties and where do i "fit in" in nursing?

[Vicky Laursen]

Im saying .. here are my qualifications... where do i fit in?

[Vicky Laursen]

1) what can a rn do a lpn cannot do?

2) if an lpn can learn and do the how, but the rn can learn to know how and why.. then i fit into the rn category.

[Vicky Laursen]

Yes, i have listed above my qualifications, now I need a nursing title to fit. Also:

1) what can an rn do a lpn cannot/is not allowed to do?

2) is this statement true: an knows how, but an RN knows how and why? if that is true, then i am in the rn category.

[LaterAlligator]

If you can administer meds, that's a nurse's duty. Maybe you can get in touch with your home state's board of nursing & speak to someone there about transferring foreign educational credits to allow you to take your certification exam (NCLEX or whatever you qualify for) in the state you intend to practice in. Good luck! If nothing else, someone who works at your school should be able to help; I'm sure they have other students who've gone on to emigrate & nurse elsewhere.

[Vicky Laursen]

im so sorry for the double posts, the server wasnt working correctly! thank you for all of your help.