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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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