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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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