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.
  • 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.
  • Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.

  • Apply bandages, dressings, or splints.