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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”.
Also Known As…
- Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
- Triage Licensed Practical Nurse (TRIAGE LPN)
- Private Duty Nurse
- Pediatric Licensed Practical Nurse (PEDIATRIC LPN)
- Office Nurse
- Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)
- Licensed Practical Nurse, Clinic Nurse (LPN, Clinic Nurse)
- Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
- Clinic Nurse
- Charge Nurse
- Nursing Technician
- Home Health Care Provider
- Clinic Licensed Practical Nurse (CLINIC LPN)
Tasks for “Clinic Licensed Practical Nurse (CLINIC LPN)”
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
- Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.
- 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.
- Clean rooms and make beds.
- Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
- Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
- Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
- 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.
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
- Record food and fluid intake and output.
- Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
- Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
- Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
- Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
Related Technology & Tools
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Ankle restraints
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Non-vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
- Pediatric nebulizers
- Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
- Continuous passive motion CPM equipment
- Personal computer PC-based spirometers
- Enema equipment
- Compressor tabletop nebulizers
- Automated spirometers
- Subcutaneous hypodermic needles
- Non-invasive cardio respiratory monitors
- Mercury blood pressure measuring equipment
- Telemetry units
- Safety infusion systems
- Electronic blood pressure units
- Rotating bed
- Infusion sets
- Intradermal needles
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
- Urinary catheters
- Wrist restraints
- Respiration monitors
- Oxygen cylinders
- Needleless intraveneous IV sets
- Crutchfield tongs
- Neck braces
- Traction weights
- Balkan frames
- Open infusion systems
- Crutches
- Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB apparatus
- Posey vests
- Jackson-Pratt drains
- Limb restraints
- Vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
- Safety jackets
- Fabric body holders
- Infusion controllers
- Ostomy equipment
- Blood glucometers
- Halo traction equipment
- Safety belts
- Patient controlled analgesia PCA pumps
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Portable nebulizers
- Walkers
- Notebook computers
- Tourniquets
- Knee braces
- Canes
- Transfer boards
- Intravenous IV needles
- Wheelchair belts
- Hemovac drains
- Heart monitors
- Oxygen supplies
- Over-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
- Blood transfusion drip regulators
- Needleless intravenous IV withdrawal equipment
- Bucks extensions
- Oxygen masks
- Ultrasonic Doppler equipment
- Oxygen tubing
- Infusion pumps
- Tracheotomy tubes
- Bag infusion systems
- Pulse oximeters
- Needleless glucometers
- Ultrasonic cardiac output monitors
- Intermittent infusion sets
- Personal computers
- Through-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
- Safety needles
- Flexible nasogastric tubes
- Tablet computers
- Intramuscular needles
- Air fluidized beds
- Traction equipment
- Ultrasonic nebulizers
- Tuberculin TB skin test equipment
- Hollow needles
- Lap belts
- Electronic stethoscopes
- Frames
- Circo-electric beds
- Apnea monitors
- Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
- Electrocardiography EKG units
- Gastric suction equipment
- Nebulizers
- Non-invasive cardiac output monitors
- Glucometers
- Clinical trapezes
- Butterfly needles
- Intubation suctioning kits
- Pneumatic boots
- Desktop computers
- Pocket spirometers
- Capillary tubes
- Safety vests
- Wheelchairs
- Heparin locks
- Lancets
- Handheld spirometers
- Electronic compressor nebulizers
- Suture removal kits
- Dialysis machines
- Hyper/hypothermia blankets
- Patient lifters
- Filtered intravenous IV catheter tubing
- Syringes
- Walking braces
- Gait belts
- Hemoglobinometer machines
- Closed infusion systems
- Digital spirometers
- Restraints
- Abdominal binders
- Telephone triage software
- Infusion management software
- Microsoft Word
- Word processing software
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Medical procedure coding software
- Medical condition coding software
- Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
- Spreadsheet software
- Diagnostic and procedural coding software
- MedicWare EMR
- Microsoft Office
- Scheduling software
- MEDITECH software
- Microsoft Excel