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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Microsoft Excel
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Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
Microsoft Word
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