Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses

Core tasks

1. 01Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
2. 02Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
3. 03Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
4. 04Provide 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.
5. 05Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
6. 06Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.

Model drivers (O*NET 1–5)

• Repeating same tasks3.90
• Degree of automation2.21
• Time sitting2.42
• Originality (ability)2.62
• Conflict situations3.48
• Hands-on objects/tools3.38
• Outdoors / weather1.16
• Disease exposure4.67
• Decision freedom3.77

Top abilities

• Written Comprehension4.00
• Problem Sensitivity4.00
• Oral Expression4.00
• Oral Comprehension4.00
• Speech Clarity3.88
• Speech Recognition3.75
• Near Vision3.75
• Inductive Reasoning3.75

Essential skills

• Reading Comprehension3.75
• Active Listening3.88
• Writing3.25
• Speaking3.88
• Mathematics2.88
• Science2.62
• Critical Thinking3.75
• Active Learning3.38
• Learning Strategies3.12
• Monitoring3.88