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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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MedicWare EMR
Medical procedure coding software
Electronic medical record EMR software
Medical condition coding software
Infusion management software
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Word
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MEDITECH software
Scheduling software
Telephone triage software
Diagnostic and procedural coding software
Microsoft Excel