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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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