Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses

01

Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.

02

Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.

03

Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.

04

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.

05

Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.

06

Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.

07

Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.

08

Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.

09

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.

10

Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.