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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Chattahoochee, FL
Chattahoochee, Florida

About this job

OCCUPATION PROFILE

JOB FAMILY: HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS

OCCUPATIONAL GROUP: TECHNOLOGISTS AND TECHNICIANS, HEALTH

OCCUPATION: LICENSED PRACTICAL AND LICENSED VOCATIONAL NURSES

29-2061

DESCRIPTION

Care for well or ill individuals in a variety of settings. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse.

EXAMPLES OF WORK

Administers specified medication, orally or by subcutaneous or intra-muscular injection, and documents in patients' charts.

Provides medical treatment and personal care to patients.

Takes and records patients' vital signs.

Dresses wounds, gives enemas, douches, alcohol rubs, and massages.

Applies compresses, ice bags, and hot water bottles.

Observes patients and reports adverse reactions to medication or treatment to medical personnel in charge.

Bathes, dresses, and assists patients in walking and turning.

Assembles and uses medical equipment.

Collects samples, such as urine and sputum, from patients for testing and performs routine anthropometric and laboratory tests.

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

Records food and fluid intake and output.

Prepares or examines food trays for prescribed diet and feeds patients.

Assists in delivery, care, and feeding of infants.

Cleans rooms, makes beds, and answers patients' calls.

Washes and dresses bodies of deceased persons.

Inventories and requisitions supplies.

Provides basic patient education as trained.

EXAMPLES OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS

Assisting and Caring for Others

Providing assistance or personal care to others.

Performing General Physical Activities

Performing physical activities that require moving one's whole body, such as in climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, where the activities often also require considerable use of the arms and legs, such as in the physical handling of materials.

Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings

Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, often to detect problems or to find out when things are finished.

Handling and Moving Objects

Using one's own hands and arms in handling, installing, forming, positioning, and moving materials, or in manipulating things, including the use of keyboards.

Communicating With Other Workers

Providing information to supervisors, fellow workers, and subordinates. This information can be exchanged face-to-face, in writing, or via telephone/electronic transfer.

Documenting/Recording Information

Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in either written form or electronic/magnetic recording.

Updating and Using Job-Relevant Knowledge

Keeping up-to-date technically and knowing one's own jobs' and related jobs' functions.

Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events

Identifying information received by making estimates or categorizations, recognizing differences or similarities, or sensing changes in circumstances or events.

Getting Information Needed to Do the Job

Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.

Establishing and Maintaining Relationships

Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others.