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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
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MedicWare EMR
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Microsoft Office
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Microsoft Word
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