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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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