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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”.
Also Known As…
- Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
- Triage Licensed Practical Nurse (TRIAGE LPN)
- Private Duty Nurse
- Pediatric Licensed Practical Nurse (PEDIATRIC LPN)
- Office Nurse
- Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)
- Licensed Practical Nurse, Clinic Nurse (LPN, Clinic Nurse)
- Clinic Nurse
- Clinic Licensed Practical Nurse (CLINIC LPN)
- Charge Nurse
- Nursing Technician
- Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
- Home Health Care Provider
Tasks for “Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)”
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
- 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.
- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
- Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
- Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.
- Clean rooms and make beds.
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Record food and fluid intake and output.
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
- Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
- Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
- 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.
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
- Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
- Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
- Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Related Technology & Tools
- Tablet computers
- Bag infusion systems
- Gastric suction equipment
- Notebook computers
- Non-invasive cardiac output monitors
- Safety infusion systems
- Flexible nasogastric tubes
- Bucks extensions
- Personal computer PC-based spirometers
- Capillary tubes
- Knee braces
- Glucometers
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Safety needles
- Jackson-Pratt drains
- Safety vests
- Heparin locks
- Enema equipment
- Digital spirometers
- Wheelchair belts
- Intermittent infusion sets
- Pulse oximeters
- Limb restraints
- Open infusion systems
- Crutches
- Wrist restraints
- Patient controlled analgesia PCA pumps
- Respiration monitors
- Patient lifters
- Wheelchairs
- Intramuscular needles
- Oxygen tubing
- Gait belts
- Blood transfusion drip regulators
- Desktop computers
- Non-vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
- Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
- Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB apparatus
- Crutchfield tongs
- Hemoglobinometer machines
- Heart monitors
- Oxygen cylinders
- Ostomy equipment
- Abdominal binders
- Needleless glucometers
- Mercury blood pressure measuring equipment
- Tuberculin TB skin test equipment
- Suture removal kits
- Traction equipment
- Syringes
- Electrocardiography EKG units
- Electronic stethoscopes
- Vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
- Filtered intravenous IV catheter tubing
- Hollow needles
- Intradermal needles
- Oxygen supplies
- Posey vests
- Fabric body holders
- Canes
- Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Blood glucometers
- Hyper/hypothermia blankets
- Halo traction equipment
- Electronic compressor nebulizers
- Restraints
- Automated spirometers
- Transfer boards
- Pneumatic boots
- Electronic blood pressure units
- Intubation suctioning kits
- Needleless intravenous IV withdrawal equipment
- Walkers
- Safety jackets
- Handheld spirometers
- Continuous passive motion CPM equipment
- Subcutaneous hypodermic needles
- Needleless intraveneous IV sets
- Ultrasonic cardiac output monitors
- Safety belts
- Tourniquets
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Circo-electric beds
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Pediatric nebulizers
- Over-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
- Compressor tabletop nebulizers
- Portable nebulizers
- Hemovac drains
- Neck braces
- Telemetry units
- Clinical trapezes
- Traction weights
- Infusion controllers
- Urinary catheters
- Through-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
- Air fluidized beds
- Nebulizers
- Personal computers
- Tracheotomy tubes
- Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
- Ultrasonic Doppler equipment
- Balkan frames
- Rotating bed
- Apnea monitors
- Pocket spirometers
- Ultrasonic nebulizers
- Lancets
- Intravenous IV needles
- Infusion sets
- Butterfly needles
- Infusion pumps
- Non-invasive cardio respiratory monitors
- Lap belts
- Oxygen masks
- Ankle restraints
- Walking braces
- Dialysis machines
- Closed infusion systems
- Frames
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Medical procedure coding software
- Microsoft Excel
- Infusion management software
- Microsoft Office
- MEDITECH software
- Medical condition coding software
- Word processing software
- Diagnostic and procedural coding software
- Microsoft Word
- Spreadsheet software
- Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
- Scheduling software
- MedicWare EMR
- Telephone triage software