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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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