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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”.
Also Known As…
- Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
- Triage Licensed Practical Nurse (TRIAGE LPN)
- Private Duty Nurse
- Pediatric Licensed Practical Nurse (PEDIATRIC LPN)
- Office Nurse
- Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)
- Licensed Practical Nurse, Clinic Nurse (LPN, Clinic Nurse)
- Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
- Clinic Nurse
- Clinic Licensed Practical Nurse (CLINIC LPN)
- Charge Nurse
- Home Health Care Provider
Tasks for “Nursing Technician”
- Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
- Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
- 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.
- Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
- Record food and fluid intake and output.
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
- Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.
- 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.
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
- Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
- Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
- Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
- Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
- Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
- Clean rooms and make beds.
Related Technology & Tools
- Rotating bed
- Desktop computers
- Non-invasive cardiac output monitors
- Electronic blood pressure units
- Infusion sets
- Suture removal kits
- Compressor tabletop nebulizers
- Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
- Flexible nasogastric tubes
- Tracheotomy tubes
- Abdominal binders
- Heparin locks
- Intubation suctioning kits
- Tuberculin TB skin test equipment
- Electronic stethoscopes
- Heart monitors
- Continuous passive motion CPM equipment
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Ultrasonic cardiac output monitors
- Open infusion systems
- Automated spirometers
- Nebulizers
- Enema equipment
- Intradermal needles
- Safety jackets
- Clinical trapezes
- Patient lifters
- Intermittent infusion sets
- Ultrasonic nebulizers
- Closed infusion systems
- Syringes
- Ultrasonic Doppler equipment
- Telemetry units
- Safety infusion systems
- Limb restraints
- Needleless intraveneous IV sets
- Infusion controllers
- Wrist restraints
- Gastric suction equipment
- Pneumatic boots
- Bucks extensions
- Needleless intravenous IV withdrawal equipment
- Tourniquets
- Oxygen cylinders
- Intravenous IV needles
- Lap belts
- Transfer boards
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Electronic compressor nebulizers
- Over-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
- Glucometers
- Through-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
- Butterfly needles
- Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
- Canes
- Patient controlled analgesia PCA pumps
- Apnea monitors
- Oxygen masks
- Wheelchairs
- Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB apparatus
- Oxygen tubing
- Digital spirometers
- Air fluidized beds
- Bag infusion systems
- Walkers
- Circo-electric beds
- Gait belts
- Subcutaneous hypodermic needles
- Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
- Hyper/hypothermia blankets
- Intramuscular needles
- Pediatric nebulizers
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Crutchfield tongs
- Frames
- Dialysis machines
- Hollow needles
- Urinary catheters
- Pulse oximeters
- Safety needles
- Capillary tubes
- Ankle restraints
- Pocket spirometers
- Safety belts
- Blood glucometers
- Traction weights
- Non-invasive cardio respiratory monitors
- Handheld spirometers
- Notebook computers
- Halo traction equipment
- Traction equipment
- Blood transfusion drip regulators
- Personal computers
- Jackson-Pratt drains
- Filtered intravenous IV catheter tubing
- Hemoglobinometer machines
- Non-vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
- Lancets
- Knee braces
- Restraints
- Portable nebulizers
- Oxygen supplies
- Infusion pumps
- Tablet computers
- Fabric body holders
- Respiration monitors
- Mercury blood pressure measuring equipment
- Needleless glucometers
- Wheelchair belts
- Safety vests
- Hemovac drains
- Balkan frames
- Vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
- Crutches
- Electrocardiography EKG units
- Personal computer PC-based spirometers
- Walking braces
- Ostomy equipment
- Posey vests
- Neck braces
- Medical procedure coding software
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Office
- Scheduling software
- Telephone triage software
- Infusion management software
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- MEDITECH software
- Spreadsheet software
- Medical condition coding software
- Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
- MedicWare EMR
- Diagnostic and procedural coding software