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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 “Nursing Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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