A licensed vocational nurse's duties revolve around basic patient care. LVNs monitor their patients' vital signs and keep their charts up to date. They assist patients in basic hygiene and personal care, including bathing and dressing them and helping them eat if necessary.
Accessory muscles refers to muscles that assist, but do not play a primary role, in breathing. There is some controversy concerning which muscles may be considered accessory muscles of inhalation.
Skeletal muscles move the bones of the body. The functional unit of skeletal muscle is a sarcomere, which consists of thick filaments, called myosin, and thin filaments, called actin. The action of the actin and myosin fibers sliding past one another causes the muscle to contract. The neuromuscular junction is where the nerve cell meets the muscle.