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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 “Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)”

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

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

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