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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”

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.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
Clean rooms and make beds.
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.
Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
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.
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.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
Record food and fluid intake and output.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
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Electronic medical record EMR software
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