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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 “Pediatric Licensed Practical Nurse (PEDIATRIC LPN)”

Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
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.
Record food and fluid intake and output.
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.
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.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
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.
Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.
Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
Clean rooms and make beds.
Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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