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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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