Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses salary in Chicago, Illinois

Salary distribution

Where Chicago licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses fall on the wage curve.

Typical entry

• Education

  Postsecondary nondegree

• Experience

  None

• On-the-job training

  None

Top skills (O*NET)

• Service Orientation

  Technical

  4.1 / 5

• Written Comprehension

  Ability

  4.0 / 5

• Social Perceptiveness

  Technical

  4.0 / 5

• Oral Expression

  Ability

  4.0 / 5

• Coordination

  Technical

  4.0 / 5

• Oral Comprehension

  Ability

  4.0 / 5

• Problem Sensitivity

  Ability

  4.0 / 5

• Customer and Personal Service

  Knowledge

  4.0 / 5

Common tasks (O*NET)

1. 01

   Observe patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action.

2. 02

   Measure and record patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration.

3. 03

   Administer prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts.

4. 04

   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.

5. 05

   Answer patients' calls and determine how to assist them.

6. 06

   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.

7. 07

   Supervise nurses' aides or assistants.

8. 08

   Sterilize equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave.