Critical Care Nurses
Also called:
Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN), Intensive Care Unit Nurse, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Registered Nurse, Burn Center Nurse
see titles from the Air Force or Navy.
Clinical Nurse, Critical Care; Clinical Nurse, Emergency/Trauma; Clinical Nurse, Neonatal Intensive Care
Critical Care Nurse; Emergency/Trauma Nurse
What they do:
Provide advanced nursing care for patients in critical or coronary care units.
On the job, you would:
- Assess patients' pain levels and sedation requirements.
- Monitor patients for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions.
- Set up and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, and pressure lines.
Health
- medicine and dentistry
- therapy and counseling
Arts and Humanities
Business
Math and Science
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Basic Skills
- keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Social
- looking for ways to help people
- understanding people's reactions
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Verbal
- listen and understand what people say
- communicate by speaking
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
Visual Understanding
- quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
- quickly know what you are looking at
Hand and Finger Use
- put together small parts with your fingers
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People interested in this work like activities that include
helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Concern for Others
- Dependability
- Attention to Detail
- Cooperation
- Stress Tolerance
- Integrity
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You might use software like this on the job:
Medical software
- eClinicalWorks software
- GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
Information retrieval or search software
- American Association of Critical Care Nurses AACN Medicopeia
- PEPID RN Critical Care RNCC
Internet browser software
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associate's degree or
bachelor's degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
$65,950
per year, on average
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You might like a career in one of these industries:
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In the military:
see titles from the Air Force or Navy.
