Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
SOC Code: 29-2061
Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nursess observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action. This career typically requires medium preparation (1-2 years). With an AI-proof score of 79.0/100, this role has high resilience to automation. Key skills include Social Perceptiveness, Service Orientation, Reading Comprehension.
AI-Proof Score: 79.0 — High
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Median Salary
$62,340
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Job Growth
2.6%
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Training Time
Medium preparation (1-2 years)
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Job Zone
Zone 3 / 5
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Training Cost
~$15,000
Key Skills
- •Social Perceptiveness
- •Service Orientation
- •Reading Comprehension
- •Coordination
- •Monitoring
- •Critical Thinking
- •Speaking
Common Tasks
- ✓Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.
- ✓Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.
- ✓Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.
- ✓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.
- ✓Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.
Training & Resources
Why AI-Proof?
- ✅Requires hands-on physical presence and dexterity
- ✅Demands human empathy, judgment, and trust
- ✅Operates in unpredictable, variable environments
- ✅Social and regulatory barriers to full automation