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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)”

Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
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.
Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
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.
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.
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.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
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.
Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
Clean rooms and make beds.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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