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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 “Clinic Licensed Practical Nurse (CLINIC LPN)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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