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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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