Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses

• Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
• Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
• Record food and fluid intake and output.

• Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.
• Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
• Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
• Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers.
• Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.
• Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
• Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
• Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
• Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
• Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles.
• Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
• Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
• 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.
• 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.
• Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
• Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.

No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (85%).