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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)”

Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
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.
Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
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.
Record food and fluid intake and output.
Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
Clean rooms and make beds.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.
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.
Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
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.
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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