Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
Health Science · Therapeutic Services
Pay and outlook shown for
New workers start near $50,320; experienced workers reach $77,360. About 5,970 people do this job in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX.
Job outlook
Alamo region (San Antonio and 12 surrounding counties), Texas Workforce Commission projection 2024 to 2034; U.S. figures from the BLS.
- Employment change
- +10.6%
- Openings a year
- 611
- Employed in 2024
- 6,457
Typical entry education: Postsecondary nondegree award
Alamo Colleges programs that lead here
2 programs, with the college that teaches each.
Skills this career uses
The skills O*NET rates most important for the job, with how much of each the work needs on a 1 to 7 scale.
- Service Orientation4.0
- Social Perceptiveness4.3
- Coordination4.0
- Active Listening4.0
- Speaking4.0
- Monitoring4.0
- Reading Comprehension4.1
- Critical Thinking4.0
What the work is
Care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required.
- Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
- Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
- 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.
- Help patients with bathing, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene, moving in bed, or standing and walking.
Education people in this job have
Share of workers by highest education, from O*NET surveys. It shows what others did, not what you must do.
- Certificate35%
- Some college38%
- Associate degree16%
- Bachelor's degree11%
Job zone 3, medium preparation: Training, an associate degree, or a few years of related experience.
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