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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 Vocational Nurse (LVN)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
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