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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 Nurse”

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

Related Technology & Tools

Fabric body holders
Limb restraints
Over-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
Automated spirometers
Digital spirometers
Tracheotomy tubes
Mercury blood pressure measuring equipment
Hollow needles
Intravenous IV needles
Patient lifters
Crutchfield tongs
Intramuscular needles
Gastric suction equipment
Pediatric nebulizers
Automated external defibrillators AED
Circo-electric beds
Electronic stethoscopes
Knee braces
Air fluidized beds
Ultrasonic nebulizers
Telemetry units
Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB apparatus
Oxygen masks
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Tourniquets
Wrist restraints
Ultrasonic cardiac output monitors
Handheld spirometers
Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
Notebook computers
Butterfly needles
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Glucometers
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Safety needles
Lap belts
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Suture removal kits
Canes
Continuous passive motion CPM equipment
Intradermal needles
Needleless intraveneous IV sets
Wheelchair belts
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Personal computers
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Safety jackets
Oxygen supplies
Nebulizers
Crutches
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Apnea monitors
Blood glucometers
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Heparin locks
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Gait belts
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Walkers
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Hemovac drains
Non-vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
Through-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
Filtered intravenous IV catheter tubing
Urinary catheters
Restraints
Traction equipment
Tuberculin TB skin test equipment
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Rotating bed
Jackson-Pratt drains
Ankle restraints
Subcutaneous hypodermic needles
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Walking braces
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Personal digital assistants PDA
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Personal computer PC-based spirometers
Oxygen cylinders
Desktop computers
Wheelchairs
Infusion sets
Safety belts
Ultrasonic Doppler equipment
Hyper/hypothermia blankets
Non-invasive cardiac output monitors
Enema equipment
Patient controlled analgesia PCA pumps
Oxygen tubing
Non-invasive cardio respiratory monitors
Ostomy equipment
Electronic compressor nebulizers

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