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Job Description

Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1141.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 72,180.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 34.00
Currently, there are 2,857,180 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Registered Nurses”.

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Tasks for “Clinical Nurse”

Refer students or patients to specialized health resources or community agencies furnishing assistance.
Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.
Provide or arrange for training or instruction of auxiliary personnel or students.
Perform administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.
Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, or other anesthetics.
Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.
Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel or supervise a particular unit.
Record patients' medical information and vital signs.
Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.
Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments.
Direct or coordinate infection control programs, advising or consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions.
Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.
Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.
Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
Conduct specified laboratory tests.
Consult with institutions or associations regarding issues or concerns relevant to the practice and profession of nursing.
Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs.
Inform physician of patient's condition during anesthesia.
Engage in research activities related to nursing.
Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
Hand items to surgeons during operations.
Work with individuals, groups, or families to plan or implement programs designed to improve the overall health of communities.
Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.
Assess the needs of individuals, families, or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems.
Prescribe or recommend drugs, medical devices, or other forms of treatment, such as physical therapy, inhalation therapy, or related therapeutic procedures.
Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.
Perform physical examinations, make tentative diagnoses, and treat patients en route to hospitals or at disaster site triage centers.
Observe nurses and visit patients to ensure proper nursing care.

Related Technology & Tools

Personal computers
Venous Oxygen Saturation SVO2 monitors
Manually operated oxygen supply resuscitators
Pocket personal computers PC
Occlusion clamps
Nasal cannulas
Cooling blankets
Cervical collars
Spine boards
Tablet computers
Leather restraints
Nebulizers
Titmus vision screeners
T-pieces with aerosol
Blood warming equipment
Reflex hammers
Hyper/hypothermia blankets
Manometers
Telemedicine equipment
Walkers
Jackson-Pratt drains
Lancets
Single lumen catheters
Lower extremity prosthetic devices
Continuous enteral feeding equipment
Laser printers
Oxyhoods
Pacemakers
Gait belts
Straight hemostats
Chemotherapy spill kits
Suture removal kits
Personal digital assistants PDA
Upper extremity prosthetic devices
Bed scales
Cardiac monitor electrodes
Aqua K pads
Urinalysis test strips
Scalpels
Ventricular assist devices VAD
Peripheral butterflys
Ventimasks
Intubation stylets
Bag-valve masks
Arterial line catheters
Telemetry units
Fetal monitors
Cardiac monitors
Blood collection needles
Defibrillators
Staple removers
Patient controlled analgesia PCA pumps
Otoscopes
Doppler pulse measurement devices
Evacuated blood collection tubes
Surgical lights
Electrosurgical devices
Percussion hammers
Oxygen administration equipment
Pleuravacs
Intramuscular needles
Surgical drapes
Head immobilizers
Infant warmers
Intravenous syringe pumps
Oral suctioning equipment
Mechanical lift devices
Retractors
Autoclaves
Autotransfusion systems
Flash sterilizers
Bilimeters
Pulse oximeters
Centrifuges
Angiocaths
Continuous positive airway pressure CPAP ventilators
Partial masks
Gastrointestinal GI endoscopes
Peripheral angiocaths
Infant security sensors
Splints
Balanced suspension traction equipment
Infusion control devices
Mechanical stethoscopes
Vest restraints
Endotracheal ET tubes
Anti-embolism elastic stockings
Bladder irrigation equipment
Phaco consoles
Phototherapy equipment
Non-rebreather masks
Glucose testing equipment
Hemovac drains
Peripheral intravenous IV locks
Syringes
Manual blood pressure monitors
Apnea monitors
Enema equipment
Isolettes
Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
Urinary catheters
Intravenous IV tubing
Suture needles
Bucks traction equipment
Manual resuscitation bags
Flexible sigmoidoscopes
Oxygen regulators
Pelvic traction equipment
Pelvic specula
Mayo trays
Tuberculosis TB skin test equipment
Curved hemostats
Photopheresis systems
Nasal suctioning equipment
Arterial blood gas testing equipment
Heparin locks
Tracheostomy collars
Levine tubes
Intravenous IV equipment
Audiometers
Fetal scalp electrodes
Oxygen tanks
Vacutainer sleeves
Patient lifters
Pulmonary artery catheters
Hospital beds
Umbilical catheters
Traction equipment
Torso immobilizers
Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
Urine analysis equipment
Loop electrosurgical excision procedure LEEP equipment
Colposcopes
Intermittent enteral feeding equipment
Triple lumen catheters
Rape kits
Limb restraints
Lukens traps
Notebook computers
Binocular light compound microscopes
Double lumen catheters
Electronic blood pressure monitors
Laryngoscope blades
Swab dryers
One-way valve protective shields
Insulin pumps
Intracranial pressure monitors
Tracheal suctioning equipment
Transport cardiac monitors
Oxygen flowmeters
Epidural pumps
Epidural catheters
Canes
Nasogastric tubes
Vacutainer tubes
Automated medicine dispensing equipment
Tourniquets
Skin traction equipment
Ventilators
Sequential compression devices
Snellen eye charts
Russell's traction equipment
Subcutaneous hypodermic needles
Overhead clinical trapezes
Phaco apparatus
Cervical traction equipment
Continuous passive motion CPM machines
Suture needleholders
Capillary glucose monitors
Vacuum extractors
Crutches
Intra-aortic balloon pumps IABP
Surgical clamps
Medical encyclopedias
Hemostats
Infusion pump enteral feeding tubes
Medical tuning forks
Colonoscopy equipment
Meconium aspirators
Computerized electrocardiography EKG and hemodynamic monitoring systems
Suction equipment
Grounding pads
Incentive spirometers
Heelstick blood sampling equipment
Electrocardiography EKG units

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