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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 “Pediatric Licensed Practical Nurse (PEDIATRIC LPN)”

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

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Personal computer PC-based spirometers
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Jackson-Pratt drains
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Apnea monitors
Suture removal kits
Lancets
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Ultrasonic nebulizers
Intradermal needles
Safety needles
Hemoglobinometer machines
Neck braces
Urinary catheters
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Personal computers
Abdominal binders
Nebulizers
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Enema equipment
Oxygen tubing
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Bag infusion systems
Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB apparatus
Pediatric nebulizers
Telemetry units
Tourniquets
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Frames
Safety jackets
Intravenous IV needles
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Digital spirometers
Traction weights
Safety belts
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Air fluidized beds
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Tuberculin TB skin test equipment
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Electrocardiography EKG units
Wrist restraints
Patient lifters
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Circo-electric beds
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Needleless intraveneous IV sets
Intubation suctioning kits
Over-the-needle intravenous IV catheters
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Electronic stethoscopes
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Ultrasonic Doppler equipment
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Hemovac drains
Bucks extensions
Intramuscular needles
Gait belts
Flexible nasogastric tubes
Open infusion systems
Wheelchairs
Non-invasive cardiac output monitors
Heart monitors
Limb restraints
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Gastric suction equipment
Posey vests
Crutchfield tongs
Butterfly needles
Automated spirometers
Pulse oximeters
Capillary tubes
Compressor tabletop nebulizers
Safety vests
Hyper/hypothermia blankets
Handheld spirometers
Personal digital assistants PDA
Rotating bed
Canes
Dialysis machines
Patient controlled analgesia PCA pumps
Vented intravenous IV catheter tubing
Oxygen supplies

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