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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 “Private Duty Nurse”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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