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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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Notebook computers
Jackson-Pratt drains
Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
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Personal digital assistants PDA
Patient controlled analgesia PCA pumps
Through-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
Ultrasonic nebulizers
Tourniquets
Circo-electric beds
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Walkers
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Telemetry units
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Personal computer PC-based spirometers
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Neck braces
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Patient lifters
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Intubation suctioning kits
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Rotating bed
Infusion pumps
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Hemovac drains
Safety needles
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Pediatric nebulizers
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Wheelchairs
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Enema equipment
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Oxygen cylinders
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Electrocardiography EKG units
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Digital spirometers
Non-invasive cardiac output monitors
Lancets
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Portable nebulizers
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Syringes
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Flexible nasogastric tubes
Blood transfusion drip regulators
Ultrasonic cardiac output monitors
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Oxygen masks
Intramuscular needles
Wrist restraints
Gait belts
Dialysis machines
Intradermal needles
Pulse oximeters
Capillary tubes
Mercury blood pressure measuring equipment
Oxygen supplies

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