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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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