Practical Nursing ~ 1.29.21



VirtualJobShadow.com Login Instructions

Staff and students of the Northwest Tech Campus – Alva may access their user accounts at https://www.virtualjobshadow.com/login/AC5760/users/?.

Students will use the same username and password as used for WorkKeys assessments  (except for a few students). Your password will be a six digit number representing your birthdate such as 020503 if you were born on February 5, 2003.

If you need assistance with your username and password, please let Mrs. Frascht know.

Be sure to complete assignments in what appears to be reverse order… most recently assigned appears on top left… first assigned is bottom right.

VirtualJobShadow.com – Job Seeking Skills: Resumes – PN 2020 Assignment

Complete the Job Seeking Skills: Resumes 2020 Assignment in VirtualJobShadow.com.

More information about resumes can be found at http://nwtech.edu/alvacc/resumes/.

Upon completion of this assignment complete the following:

  1. Print a copy of the resume and give to your instructor to proofread.
  2. After Mrs. Frascht has approved your resume, print a copy of the resume and add it to your portfolio.
  3. Add the MS Word or Google Doc file to the folder your instructor created for you on the Shared Drive.  Do NOT share your file with your instructor…. put a copy in the correct folder (your name AlvaCC2020).
  4. Complete and print the Job Seeking Skills: Resumes 2020 Assignment on VirtualJobShadow.com.

 

Additional Information

According to the ACT Job Profiles Database, the following are some tasks performed by Practical Nurses:

  • Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients’ charts.
  • Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients’ conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
  • Answer patients’ calls and determine how to assist them.
  • Measure and record patients’ vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
  • Provide basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations.
  • Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
  • Supervise nurses’ aides or assistants.
  • Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
  • Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
  • Record food and fluid intake and output.
  • Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
  • Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
  • Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
  • Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
  • Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
  • Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors’ offices or clinics.
  • Provide medical treatment or personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, or instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
  • Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
  • Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
  • Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
  • Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
  • Clean rooms and make beds.
  • Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.

 

Nursing Resumes Examples

The following are examples of resumes for nurses:

VirtualJobShadow.com Assignment – 16Personalities Assessment (2020) Assignment

Complete the 16Personalities Assessment (2020) Assignment in VirtualJobShadow.com.

Be sure to create a screen shot of your results as soon as they appear on the screen!!!  Do not clink on any links until you have created a screen shot or taken a photo of your screen with your cell phone!!  You most likely cannot click the browser back button to get your results once you have clicked a link.

Upon completion of this assignment complete the following:

  1. E-mail the results to yourself (should be an option).
  2. Download the results of your 16Personalities.com assessment.  Upload a copy of the results to the Shared Folder I created for you on Google Drive.
  3. Print a copy of the 16Personalities.com assessment results and add it to your portfolio.
  4. Complete and print the 16Personalities Assignment on VirtualJobShadow.com.

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