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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 Nurse”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Microsoft Excel
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Microsoft Office
Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
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