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Job Description

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.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1141.01

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Acute Care Nurses”.

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Tasks for “Acute Care Clinical Nurse Specialist”

Perform administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer, or discharge of patients.
Assess urgent and emergent health conditions using both physiologically and technologically derived data.
Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work.
Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests and screening procedures based on assessment results, differential diagnoses, and knowledge about age, gender and health status of clients.
Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions.
Participate in the development of practice protocols.
Adjust settings on patients' assistive devices such as temporary pacemakers.
Treat wounds or superficial lacerations.
Collaborate with patients to plan for future health care needs or to coordinate transitions and referrals.
Assess the needs of patients' family members or caregivers.
Prescribe medications and observe patients' reactions, modifying prescriptions as needed.
Assess the impact of illnesses or injuries on patients' health, function, growth, development, nutrition, sleep, rest, quality of life, or family, social and educational relationships.
Distinguish between normal and abnormal developmental and age-related physiological and behavioral changes in acute, critical, and chronic illness.
Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members.
Provide formal and informal education to other staff members.
Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions.
Participate in patients' care meetings and conferences.
Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments.
Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in acute care.
Refer patients for specialty consultations or treatments.
Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines.
Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability.
Document data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.
Assist patients in organizing their health care system activities.
Analyze the indications, contraindications, risk complications, and cost-benefit tradeoffs of therapeutic interventions.
Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays).

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