Archive for June 28th, 2010

Jun 28

Goals for the LVN and LPN

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In the year 2000 world leaders adopted the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to address specific development needs to improve the quality of living for the world.  According to the MDGs fact sheet http://www.undp.org/mdg/basics.shtml, “The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most broadly supported, comprehensive and specific development goals the world has ever agreed upon.”  What are the similarities between the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the curriculum within a LVN or LPN program?  Goals, especially in the nursing profession, provide a framework to foster collaboration between the patient, nurse and the rest of the healthcare team to reach expected outcomes.

The MDGs require not only nurses, but everyone from all nations to work together to reach the selected goals by the year 2015. In fact, there are eight MDGs with 21 quantifiable targets measured by 60 indicators that address various needs.  These goals include #1 Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger, #2 Achieve Universal Primary Education, #3 Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women, #4 Reduce child Mortality, #5 Improve Maternal Health, #6 Combat HIV/AIDS , Malaria and Other Diseases, #7 Ensure Environmental Sustainability, and #8 A Global Partnership For Development.

Within the AHNA Beginnings Spring 2010 publication, Jeanne Crawford, MA, MPH states in her article, Haiti and the International Year of the Nurse, “All over the world, people are in need, and nurses…are the answer.  We are equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to provide whole-person, patient-centered care.”  Fortunately both LVN and LPN schools teach skills, especially those that address childhood and maternal health, as well as treating life-threatening diseases.  Crawford encourages us as nurses to work together with our community to “…bring health, education and sustainability to the impoverished communities and underprivileged throughout the world.”
Jun 28

The End of the Module

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The end of the Spring Module has come! The grades are in, and the summer break is starting! Here, at Gurnick Academy, we especially want our LVN students to succeed in their endeavor of obtaining quality education and experience on the way to successful careers. We, the Gurnick family, are very proud of our LVN program, because we wish success to all that enter it. If you have come to us, we meet you with open arms, and make sure, you get all the help on your way to a new beginning in your life, because we give education to all those who want an education in LVN nursing!

So, as usual, at the end of the module, we look back and sum up the successes of our nursing students. No one is left behind here. Even those, who need assistance in academic progress or have fallen behind on their studying or clinical hours, will be given chances to improve their grades to catch up with the rest of their classmates. It is like a family here: we care about all our students, and we sincerely want them to be successful in studies and in practice. This is why we have remediation procedures for the ones who had hard time in the past module, and need to catch up. No one is left behind, and we, Gurnick Academy of Medical Arts, are proud of this!