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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 “Charge Nurse”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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