How do they match: Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses

Evaluate nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary.
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.
Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.

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

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