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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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