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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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