Licensed Practical Nurse
- Exam
- Third-party exam
- Education
- Degree
- Experience
- None
- Background check
- Specific type of conviction prohibited
A Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) is a person who practices practical nursing. Practical nursing means the performance for compensation of any simple acts in the care of convalescent, subacutely or chronically ill, injured or infirm persons, or of any act or procedure in the care of the more acutely ill, injured or infirm under the specific direction of a nurse, physician, podiatrist or dentist, or under an order of a person who is licensed to practice medicine, podiatry or dentistry in another state if that person prepared the order after examining the patient in that other state and directs that the orders be carried out in this state. A simple act is one which does not require any substantial nursing skill, knowledge or training, or the application of nursing principals based on biological, physical or social sciences, or the understanding of cause and effect in such acts and is one which is of a nature of those approved by the board for the curriculum of schools for licensed practical nurses.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- Third-party exam required
- Education
- Degree required
- Continuing education
- No continuing education requirement
- Certification
- No mention of certification
- Experience
- No experience
- Background check
- Specific type of conviction prohibited
Issuing body
- Department
- WI Department of Safety and Professional Services
- Division
- Division of Professional Credential Processing
- Address
- 1400 E. Washington Ave. P.O. Box 8935 Madison, WI 53708
- Phone
- (608) 266-2112
- Agency website
- https://dsps.wi.gov/Pages/Professions/Default.aspx
- Last updated
- December 1, 2020
Occupations (O*NET)
- Licensed Practical Nurse 29-2061.00
Source and verification
This record is Wisconsin's report to the Analyst Resource Center, published by CareerOneStop (October 2024 export). Everything shown comes only from that report.
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