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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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