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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”

Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
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.
Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
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.
Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
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.
Record food and fluid intake and output.
Clean rooms and make beds.
Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Infusion management software
MedicWare EMR
Medical procedure coding software
Medical condition coding software
Microsoft Excel
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Word processing software
Telephone triage software
Microsoft Word
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Microsoft Office
Scheduling software
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