Acute Care Nurses
Also called: Nurse Manager, Nursing Director, Progressive Care Unit Registered Nurse
What they do:
Provide advanced nursing care for patients with acute conditions such as heart attacks, respiratory distress syndrome, or shock. May care for pre- and post-operative patients or perform advanced, invasive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.
On the job, you would:
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions.
- Document data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.
- Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
Arts and Humanities
Health
Business
Math and Science
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Basic Skills
Problem Solving
Social
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Verbal
Ideas and Logic
Hand and Finger Use
Visual Understanding
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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:
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You might use software like this on the job: Medical software
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See more details at O*NET OnLine about acute care nurses.