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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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