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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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