Care for ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled persons in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required.

Other names for Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses: Charge Nurse, Clinic Licensed Practical Nurse (CLINIC Lpn), Clinic Nurse, Endoscopy Technician, Home Health Care Provider, Home Health Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN), Nursing Technician, Office Nurse, Pediatric Licensed Practical Nurse (PEDIATRIC Lpn), Private Duty Nurse, Triage Licensed Practical Nurse (TRIAGE Lpn),

• Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts on patients' charts.
• Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
• Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.
• Provide basic patient care and 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 and assistants.
• Work as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions.
• Record food and fluid intake and output.
• Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members as necessary.
• Assemble and use equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen suppliers.
• Collect samples such as blood, urine and sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
• Prepare patients for examinations, tests or treatments and explain procedures.
• Prepare food trays and examine them for conformance to prescribed diet.
• Apply compresses, ice bags, and hot water bottles.
• Clean rooms and make beds.
• Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
• Provide medical treatment and personal care to patients in private home settings, such as cooking, keeping rooms orderly, seeing that patients are comfortable and in good spirits, and instructing family members in simple nursing tasks.
• Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
• Assist in delivery, care, and feeding of infants.
• Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
• Make appointments, keep records and perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices and clinics.
• Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.

• Abdominal binders
• Patient care beds or accessories for specialty care
• Patient stabilization or fall prevention devices or accessories
• Apnea monitors or accessories
• Automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
• Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies
• Intravenous or arterial infusion single port bags or containers
• Leg traction supplies
• Glucose monitors or meters
• Blood transfusion filters or screens or accessories
• Orthopedic traction hardware or weights
• Butterfly needles
• Canes or cane accessories
• Capillary or hematocrit tubes
• Patient care beds or accessories for specialty care
• Clinical trapeze bars
• Intravenous or arterial infusion single port bags or containers
• Nebulizers or accessories
• Continuous passive motion CPM devices or accessories
• Crutches or crutch accessories
• Head or neck traction supplies
• Desktop computers
• Hemodialysis units
• Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies
• Electrocardiography EKG units
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Nebulizers or accessories
• Electronic stethoscopes or accessories
• Enema kits or accessories
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
• Full body restraints
• Intravenous or arterial extension tubing
• Nasogastric tubes
• Patient care beds or accessories for specialty care
• Patient stabilization or fall prevention devices or accessories
• Suction pumps
• Glucose monitors or meters
• Head or neck traction supplies
• Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies
• Cardiac output CO monitoring units or accessories
• Hematology analyzers
• Medical incision drains
• Intravenous or arterial tubing adapters or connectors or locks or caps or protectors
• Hypodermic needles
• Therapeutic heating or cooling blankets or drapes
• Dial calibrated intravenous flowmeters or regulators
• Intravenous infusion pumps for general use
• Analgesic infusion sets or kits
• Intravenous or arterial tubing adapters or connectors or locks or caps or protectors
• Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
• Hypodermic needles
• Hypodermic needles
• Hypodermic needles
• Suction kits
• Medical incision drains
• Knee braces or hinged knee supports
• Lancets
• Patient stabilization or fall prevention devices or accessories
• Extremity restraints
• Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories
• Mercury blood pressure units
• Nebulizers or accessories
• Cervical collars or neck braces
• Glucose monitors or meters
• Needleless intraveneous injection syringe sets or injection cannulas
• Needleless vial or bag withdrawal cannulas or adapters or decanters
• Cardiac output CO monitoring units or accessories
• Respiratory monitoring kits or its accessories
• Intravenous or arterial extension tubing
• Notebook computers
• Intravenous or arterial infusion single port bags or containers
• Ostomy appliances
• Peripheral intravenous catheters for general use
• Medical gas cylinders or related devices
• Medical oxygen masks or parts
• Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies
• Medical oxygen tubing or connectors
• Patient controlled analgesia infusion pumps
• Patient lifts or accessories
• Nebulizers or accessories
• Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies
• Personal computers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Vascular or compression apparel or supports
• Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies
• Nebulizers or accessories
• Restraint vests and jackets
• Spirometers or its accessories or its supplies
• Pulse oximeter units
• Respiratory monitoring kits or its accessories
• Patient stabilization or fall prevention devices or accessories
• Patient care beds or accessories for specialty care
• Restraint straps or buckles or accessories or supplies
• Intravenous or arterial infusion single port bags or containers
• Restraint vests and jackets
• Needle protectors
• Restraint vests and jackets
• Perfusion oxygen or hematocrit saturation monitors or accessories
• Hypodermic needles
• Suture removal kits or trays or packs or sets
• Medical syringes without needles
• Tablet computers
• Electrocardiography EKG transmitter or telemetry or accessories
• Peripheral intravenous catheters for general use
• Tourniquets
• Tracheostomy tubes
• Orthopedic traction hardware or weights
• Orthopedic traction hardware or weights
• Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation units
• Patient shifting boards or accessories
• Tuberculin syringes
• Cardiac output CO monitoring units or accessories
• Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echo or echography units for general diagnostic use
• Nebulizers or accessories
• Urinary catheterization kits or accessories
• Intravenous or arterial extension tubing
• Walkers or rollators
• Walking braces
• Restraint straps or buckles or accessories or supplies
• Wheelchairs
• Extremity restraints

Office suite software

Word processing software

Calendar and scheduling software

Spreadsheet software

Medical software