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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 Vocational Nurse (LVN)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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