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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Electronic medical record EMR software
Microsoft Excel
Scheduling software
MedicWare EMR
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Word
Diagnostic and procedural coding software
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Spreadsheet software
Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS