Occupation information for Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses District Of Columbia

See Job Listings (19) Find Businesses

Typical education needed for entry: Postsecondary certificate

Typical work experience needed for a job in this occupation: No work experience

Typical on-the-job training once you have a job in this occupation: No on-the-job training

Find Training

• 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.
• 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.
• Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.
• Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
• 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.

Tools:

• Hypodermic needle
• Intravenous or arterial infusion bags or containers
• Nebulizers
• Patient care beds for specialty care
• Spirometers

Technology:

• Electronic mail software
• Medical software
• Spreadsheet software
• Video conferencing software
• Word processing software

Explore Careers

Salary Info

Resumes + Applications

Employer Research