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The Health Sciences Academy
provides students with an opportunity to take courses while still in high
school that will prepare the learner with foundational
knowledge to pursue a wide variety of health care occupations in college
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Nursing, Medical Assistant, Radiology, Medical Laboratory Technology, Respiratory
Therapy, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physician-the
options for a career in health care are many and varied
with limitless opportunity
for career mobility and personal growth!
Nursing Career Academy
Do you like to work with people and be part of
a team?
Do you want to make a difference in people's
lives?
Do you want a career with limitless opportunity
for career mobility and personal growth?
Then a career in nursing may be for you!
The Nursing
Academy enables the learner to meet nursing prerequisite
requirements by
taking foundational
pre-nursing courses while
still in high school so
that the learner will be prepared to begin
a nursing program the first semester of
college.
LPNs provide basic bedside care, taking
vital signs, administering medications,
applying
dressings, and carrying out other
physicians' orders as well
as monitoring patients and reporting
adverse reactions.
They help keep patients
comfortable
and assist with feeding, bathing, dressing,
and personal hygiene, all under the supervision
of
an RN. LPNs
may continue their
education in
an RN Mobility
program to become an RN.
RNs perform physical
assessments and collect health histories in order
to assess patients'
responses
to illness. They
develop nursing
care
plans based
on assessment
data, supervise and delegate tasks to
assistive personnel, assist physicians with various
diagnostic and treatment
procedures, administer medications
and provide intravenous (IV) therapy,
provide education to patients
and their families
about medical conditions and treatment,
and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions.
RNs may continue
their
education and become
an Advanced Practice
nurse, such
as Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Midwife,
Nurse Anesthetist, Clinical Nurse Specialist,
Nurse
Educator, and
Nursing Administrator.
Employment projections
for nurses are very good to excellent as the population
ages
and many
current workers will
be retiring in
the
near future. Licensed
Practical Nurses (LPNs) and Registered
Nurses (RNs) may work in hospitals,
clinics, nursing
homes,
schools,
industry,
and in homes.
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