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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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