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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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