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Job Description

Care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2061.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 44,840.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 21.00
Currently, there are 702,400 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses”.

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Tasks for “Charge Nurse”

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

Related Technology & Tools

Capillary tubes
Walking braces
Ankle restraints
Needleless intraveneous IV sets
Gastric suction equipment
Intravenous IV needles
Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
Gait belts
Safety infusion systems
Glucometers
Enema equipment
Mechanical stethoscopes
Hyper/hypothermia blankets
Patient controlled analgesia PCA pumps
Electronic stethoscopes
Clinical trapezes
Neck braces
Safety vests
Infusion sets
Ostomy equipment
Limb restraints
Electronic blood pressure units
Evacuated blood collection tubes
Lap belts
Halo traction equipment
Crutches
Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
Safety belts
Ultrasonic nebulizers
Infusion pumps
Restraints
Open infusion systems
Personal digital assistants PDA
Safety jackets
Hemovac drains
Non-invasive cardio respiratory monitors
Heparin locks
Heart monitors
Intermittent infusion sets
Personal computer PC-based spirometers
Tourniquets
Filtered intravenous IV catheter tubing
Traction weights
Tracheotomy tubes
Bag infusion systems
Balkan frames
Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB apparatus
Oxygen cylinders
Pneumatic boots
Circo-electric beds
Knee braces
Oxygen supplies
Frames
Mercury blood pressure measuring equipment
Blood glucometers
Through-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
Rotating bed
Handheld spirometers
Apnea monitors
Portable nebulizers
Patient lifters
Traction equipment
Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
Lancets
Bucks extensions
Over-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
Automated external defibrillators AED
Oxygen masks
Jackson-Pratt drains
Notebook computers
Oxygen tubing
Nebulizers
Digital spirometers
Wrist restraints
Subcutaneous hypodermic needles
Crutchfield tongs
Compressor tabletop nebulizers
Blood transfusion drip regulators
Automated spirometers
Personal computers
Intramuscular needles
Electronic compressor nebulizers
Tuberculin TB skin test equipment
Suture removal kits
Needleless intravenous IV withdrawal equipment
Ultrasonic Doppler equipment
Vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
Pediatric nebulizers
Needleless glucometers
Electrocardiography EKG units
Intradermal needles
Urinary catheters
Telemetry units
Respiration monitors
Butterfly needles
Pulse oximeters
Pocket spirometers
Continuous passive motion CPM equipment
Air fluidized beds
Tablet computers
Non-invasive cardiac output monitors
Dialysis machines
Intubation suctioning kits
Posey vests
Canes
Fabric body holders
Infusion controllers
Closed infusion systems
Hemoglobinometer machines
Walkers
Syringes
Flexible nasogastric tubes
Hollow needles
Ultrasonic cardiac output monitors
Desktop computers
Abdominal binders
Transfer boards
Wheelchairs
Wheelchair belts
Safety needles
Non-vented intravenous IV catheter tubing

Telephone triage software
Diagnostic and procedural coding software
Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
Electronic medical record EMR software
Spreadsheet software
Microsoft Word
Medical procedure coding software
Infusion management software
Medical condition coding software
Word processing software
MEDITECH software
MedicWare EMR
Scheduling software
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office