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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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