GREAT BEND TRIBUNE Barton Nursing adds IV skills to curriculum Courtesy photo
Nurses who graduate from Barton Community College’s Licensed Practical Nurse program will now have an extra skillset to make them more valuable in the workforce; they have the option to be IV certified.
Barton Nursing Instructor Kristin Steele said the Kansas State Board of Nursing just approved IV certification at the LPN level in the Fall of 2020. In the past, students were not able to get certified unless they went to an outside agency that was usually far away and added hundreds of dollars in cost. In addition, most students were not able to get this done between years of nursing school, and since hospitals require LPNs to be IV certified they were being limited on where they could work.