Licensed Practical Nurse Starting Salary in Every State (2021)
Licensed Practical Nurse: Starting Salary (2021), Working Conditions, Training, Employment, Career EMPLOYMENT OUTLOOK: Employment is expected to grow much faster than average from 919,000 in 2010 to 1,220,000 in 2025, a 28 percent increase, due to long term healthcare needs of an aging population and the overall growth in health care needs and services. NATURE OF WORK: Licensed practical nurses (L.P.N. 's) look after the sick, injured, convalescing, and handicapped under the direction of physicians and registered nurses. Most provide basic bedside care take temperature, vital sign , pulse, and respiration; treat bedsores; prepare and provides injections and enemas; apply dressings; give alcohol rubs and massages; apply ice packs and predicament bottles; insert catheters; feed patients and help them with bathing, dressing, and private hygiene. Some States allow L.P.N. 's to administer prescribed medicines, start intravenous fluids, and help deliver, care for, and ...