Licensed Vocational Nurse - 2021
Hybrid-based
ONET: 29-2061.00
1
Years
33
Skills
1395h
Related instructions
3000h
On-the-job training
Classroom instruction topics
- Intermediate Concepts of Vocational Nursing-Care of the Family (NVN-61)
- Advanced Vocational Nursing Foundations-Medical/Surgical (NVN-71)
- Intermediate Concepts of Vocational Nursing-Medical/Surgical (NVN-62)
- Introductory Concepts of Vocational Nursing -Nursing Fundamentals (NVN-52)
- Vocational Nursing Practice/Nutrition (NVN-55A)
- Principles of Pathophysiology (NVN-55B)
- Developmental Psychology (PSY-9)
- Survey of Human Anatomy and Physiology (BIO-45)
On-the-job training
- Occupational Skills
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them
- Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration
- 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
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions
- Supervise nurses' aides or assistants
- Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary
- Assemble and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers
- Record food and fluid intake and output
- Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples
- Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking
- Apply compresses, ice bags, or hot water bottles
- Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave
- Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics
- 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
- Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms
- Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet
- Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons
- Inventory and requisition supplies and instruments
- Clean rooms and make beds
- Assist in delivery, care, or feeding of infants
- Professional Skills
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
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