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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 “Licensed Practical Nurse, Clinic Nurse (LPN, Clinic Nurse)”

Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
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.
Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
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.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
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.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.
Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Record food and fluid intake and output.
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.
Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
Clean rooms and make beds.
Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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MEDITECH software
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Microsoft Excel
Diagnostic and procedural coding software
Scheduling software
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Telephone triage software
Medical procedure coding software
Infusion management software
Word processing software
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Word
MedicWare EMR
Electronic medical record EMR software