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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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