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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 “Office Nurse”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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