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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”

Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
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.
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.
Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
Record food and fluid intake and output.
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
Clean rooms and make beds.
Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants.
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration.
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.
Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
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.
Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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