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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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