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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

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Tasks for “Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses”

Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Clean rooms and make beds.
Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
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.
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.
Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
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.
Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
Record food and fluid intake and output.
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.
Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Microsoft Excel
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