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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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Healthcare common procedure coding system HCPCS
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