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