Licensed Nurse (LPN)

• Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
• Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
• Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
• 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.
• Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
• Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
• Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
• Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
• Record food and fluid intake and output.
• Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.

• Record patient medical histories.
• Monitor patient conditions during treatments, procedures, or activities.
• Measure the physical or physiological attributes of patients.
• Administer basic health care or medical treatments.
• Administer intravenous medications.
• Apply bandages, dressings, or splints.
• Assist patients with hygiene or daily living activities.
• Supervise patient care personnel.
• Train patients, family members, or caregivers in techniques for managing disabilities or illnesses.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.

• Spirometers
• Nebulizers
• Hypodermic needle
• Intravenous or arterial infusion bags or containers
• Patient stabilization or fall prevention devices
• Patient care beds for specialty care
• Glucose monitors or meters
• Restraint vests and jackets
• Intravenous or arterial extension tubing
• Cardiac output CO monitoring units
• Orthopedic traction hardware or weights
• Medical or surgical suction or vacuum appliances
• Head or neck traction supplies
• Extremity restraints
• Surgical drains or drain sets
• Peripherally inserted central catheters PICC
• Intravenous or arterial tubing adapter or connector
• Respiratory monitoring kits
• Restraint straps or buckles or supplies
• Dispensing pins or needles
• Intravenous infusion pumps for general use
• Mobile medical services automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
• Needleless intravenous injection syringe sets or injection cannulas
• Intermittent positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
• Patient lifts
• Nasogastric tubes
• Medical gas cylinders or related devices
• Pulse oximeter units
• Dial calibrated intravenous flowmeters or regulators
• Patient shifting boards
• Tuberculin syringes
• Ostomy appliances
• Needleless vial or bag withdrawal cannulas or adapters or decanters
• Blood transfusion filters or screens
• Vascular or compression apparel or support
• Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echocardiograph or echocardiograph units for general diagnostic use
• Perfusion oxygen or hematocrit saturation monitors
• Hemodialysis units
• Medical acoustic stethoscopes
• Continuous passive motion CPM devices
• Mercury blood pressure units
• Knee therapeutic brace or support
• Cervical collars or neck braces
• Enema kits
• Patient controlled analgesia infusion pumps
• Leg traction supplies
• Tracheostomy tubes
• Medical oxygen tubing or connectors
• Urinary catheterization kits
• Hematology analyzers
• Therapeutic heating or cooling blankets or drapes
• Walkers or rollators
• Full body restraints
• Clinical trapeze bars
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers
• Suture removal kits or trays or packs or sets
• Analgesic infusion sets or kits
• Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation units
• Winged infusion needle set
• Medical syringes without needle
• Medical oxygen masks or parts
• Oxygen therapy delivery system products
• Capillary or hematocrit tubes
• Electrocardiography EKG transmitters or telemetry devices
• Wheelchairs
• Electronic stethoscopes
• Canes
• Apnea monitors
• Electrocardiography EKG units
• Lancets
• Crutches
• Abdominal binders
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Notebook computers
• Tourniquets
• Desktop computers
• Walking braces
• Personal computers
• Tablet computers

American Health Information Management Association
American Nurses Association
National Association for Practical Nurse Education and Service
National Association of Licensed Practical Nurses
National Council of State Boards of Nursing
National League for Nursing
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses

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