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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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