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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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