How do they match: Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses

  • Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
  • Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
  • Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.

  • Treat patients using physical therapy techniques.
  • Administer basic health care or medical treatments.
  • Analyze quantitative data to determine effectiveness of treatments or therapies.
  • Apply bandages, dressings, or splints.
  • Assist healthcare practitioners during examinations or treatments.
  • Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
  • Monitor patient conditions during treatments, procedures, or activities.