licensed vocational nurse

noun

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

Example Sentences

He and his parents took out a loan for about $30,000 to pay for the 12-month licensed vocational nurse program, he said, but he figures he’ll work extra shifts once he earns his degree and gets a job to pay off the debt.

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She had worked for a time as a licensed vocational nurse, and found the experience rewarding.

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She said receiving the cash — and knowing it was temporary — has made her “laser-focused” on her goals: Finish her prerequisite courses this spring; work part-time as a licensed vocational nurse this summer while studying for her nursing school entrance exam; then apply to schools in the fall and start a nursing program next spring.

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She plans to live at home and pick up a couple of shifts each week as a licensed vocational nurse while in school, but said her savings from this year should help ensure she isn’t stretched thin during the two-year program.

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Carrie Hughes, a licensed vocational nurse supervisor at the four facilities, said that after the death at San Marino in the Desert, facility policies on administering such drugs were changed and a nurse who had given the medications too close together in time was reprimanded.

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