How do they match: Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses

  • Collect samples, such as blood, urine, or sputum from patients, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
  • Make appointments, keep records, or perform other clerical duties in doctors' offices or clinics.
  • 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.

  • Perform clerical work in medical settings.