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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Microsoft Excel
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Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
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Microsoft Word
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