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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 “Office Nurse”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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