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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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