How do they match: Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses

  • Prepare or examine food trays for conformance to prescribed diet.
  • Prepare patients for examinations, tests, or treatments and explain procedures.
  • Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
  • 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.
  • Set up equipment and prepare medical treatment rooms.

  • Prepare medical supplies or equipment for use.
  • Prepare patients physically for medical procedures.
  • Analyze quantitative data to determine effectiveness of treatments or therapies.
  • Manage preparation of special meals or diets.
  • Measure the physical or physiological attributes of patients.
  • Treat patients using physical therapy techniques.