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licensed vocational nurse

American  

noun

  1. a person with specified training who has become licensed to provide vocational assistance to patients. LVN


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“They’re not listening to the frontline health care workers,” said Mikki Fletchall, a licensed vocational nurse based in a Kaiser medical office in Camarillo, California.

From Washington Times Oct. 4, 2023

“They were going through nurses every two or three weeks who would quit because of the pay,” said Miranda, a licensed vocational nurse.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 7, 2022

Ana Chavez, a licensed vocational nurse living in West Hollywood, said that in the past, she had earned between $20 and $24 per hour as a home health nurse attending to a single pediatric patient.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 7, 2022

If someone has worsening symptoms that are out of control, a licensed vocational nurse, a registered nurse or a home health aide could stay for eight-hour shifts until the patient is once again comfortable.

From Washington Post Jan. 20, 2022

She was last stationed as a specialist at Madigan Army Medical Center in Fort Lewis, Wash. His father, a retired Army licensed vocational nurse, was last stationed at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.

From New York Times Sep. 23, 2018

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