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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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