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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, Clinic Nurse (LPN, Clinic Nurse)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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