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Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses: reported tasks and exploration worksheet
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.
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This source lists 22 tasks, including 15 marked Core and 7 marked Supplemental. Labels and dates are retained below. Employers can combine or divide these responsibilities differently; explore the task itself before assuming it belongs in every version of the role.
Task source dates: 08/2021.
22 tasks shown
Core · Task 507 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
Core · Task 510 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
Core · Task 508 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
Core · Task 511 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
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.
Core · Task 509 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
Core · Task 513 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
Core · Task 516 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
Core · Task 514 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
Core · Task 515 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Record food and fluid intake and output.
Core · Task 517 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
Core · Task 518 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
Core · Task 520 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
Core · Task 512 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
Core · Task 519 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
Core · Task 521 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
Supplemental · Task 524 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
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.
Supplemental · Task 525 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
Supplemental · Task 528 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
Supplemental · Task 529 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
Supplemental · Task 527 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
Supplemental · Task 522 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Clean rooms and make beds.
Supplemental · Task 523 · 08/2021 · Incumbent
Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments.
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