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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Electronic medical record EMR software
Microsoft Office
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Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
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Microsoft Excel
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Microsoft Word