LPN

LPN - Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurse. LPNs work with hypodermic needles, nebulizers, patient care beds, patient stabilization or fall prevention devices or accessories, spirometers, and more. This is an InDemand occupation.

Consider this occupation if you enjoy:

• Assisting and caring for others.
• Making decisions and solving problems.
• Getting information.
• Monitoring processes, materials, or surroundings.
• Identifying objects, actions, and events.
  

Tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Observing patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
• Administering prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, and note times and amounts on patients' charts.
• Measuring and recording patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration.
• Providing 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.
• Supervising nurses' aides and assistants.
• Working as part of a health care team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care and implement interventions.
• Evaluating nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other health care team members as necessary.

National median wage in 2005 was $16.94/hour, $35,230/annual.

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