The Registered Nurse, by comparison, is able to perform all of the LPN/LVN services with additional responsibilities such as performing a comprehensive assessment, establishing a nursing diagnosis, setting goals and prescribing nursing interventions to meet health care needs, evaluating the response to interventions and care plans, designing and implementing patient-specific education programs and ensuring that safe care is being rendered by all staff.
#Focussed vs focused professional
Although variations occur from state to state, it is generally accepted that the LPN/LVN provides professional services such as collecting and reporting patient data, conducting a focused assessment of the patient’s health status, performing direct patient care such as wound care, procedures and assistance with activities of daily living, providing health information to patients and families, participating and contributing to the plan of care, delegating and assigning interventions related to the plan of care and collaborating with the health care team. The LPN/LVN’s practice falls under an established set of nursing standards that are set by the state’s Board of Nursing (BON). The National Council of State Boards of Nursing recommends that the Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse has a directed scope of practice under the supervision of an RN, Advanced Practice Nurse (APRN), licensed physician or other care provider who is authorized by the state. How does the comprehensive assessment compare to the focused assessment, and when is either appropriate? While the Registered Nurse (RN) has a wider scope of practice and is responsible for more comprehensive patient assessments and duties, the LPN/LVN is able to conduct focused assessments to determine the health status of patients. By partnering with Registered Nurses, Certified Nurse Assistants ( CNAs) or Patient Care Technicians (PCTs), the LPN/LVN can perform a wide range of patient-care duties in many clinical settings. You can't just use focussed and focused in the same document - you need to stick with one, or you'll look like you've gone insane with choice.The Licensed Practical/Vocation Nurse (LPN/LVN) is a highly valuable member of the medical care team. The bottom line is that when you are in Australia, you have the option to use both spellings, as long as you are consistent. I know what you're thinking: You thinking 'what the fuck?! Why can't they just decide on one spelling!?' Well, you make a good point, but you're just a foot soldier on the grammar battlefield, and the question of focused and focussed is an interesting example of Australian spelling being an English ho, incorporating both UK and US spellings without so much as blushing. And you know when the Sydney Morning Herald is involved, shit is serious. But in the majority of publications, such as the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, the spelling focused is used instead.
But it's not really as straight-cut as that, because Australian English can't make it's mind up which one to use.Īccording to The Style Guide, which is the official guide to all the spellings in Australia, you should use focussed. In UK and Australian English, it's spelt focussed. In US spelling, this word is spelt focused. Some words have two different spellings in the same country, and can be used interchangeably. These can hurt your head.Ī prime offender of this is the word focussed.
As you know, we have already battled with the rules of when to use different spellings for the same words, and it has been no small task.īut the thing you have to understand that you can never really win the battle with words – you can only hold them back for long enough to crouch down in your trench and write a letter to your loved ones, telling them how much you miss the farm, and that you don't know when you'll be home.
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