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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 “Private Duty Nurse”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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