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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 “Clinic Licensed Practical Nurse (CLINIC LPN)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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