Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses

Key skills

A typical day

• •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.
• •Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.

Fields of study

Any field