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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”.
Also Known As…
- Acute Care Nurses
- Staff Nurse
- Progressive Care Unit Registered Nurse
- Preceptor
- Nursing Director
- Nurse Manager
- Clinical Staff Educator
- Clinical Nurse Educator
- Clinical Educator
- Charge Nurse, Cardiac Interventional Care
- Charge Nurse
- Supervising Nurse
- Screening Unit Registered Nurse
- Progressive Care Manager
- Pediatric Acute Care Unit Nurse
- Chronic Condition Nurse
- Care Transitions Nurse
- Care Transitions Manager
- Admission Nurse Coordinator
- Admission Nurse
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
- Acute Care Nurse
- Acute Care Clinical Nurse Specialist
Tasks for “Charge Nurse, Cardiac Interventional Care”
- Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments.
- Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays).
- Document data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.
- 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.
- Provide formal and informal education to other staff members.
- Assess urgent and emergent health conditions using both physiologically and technologically derived data.
- Refer patients for specialty consultations or treatments.
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions.
- Participate in the development of practice protocols.
- Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions.
- Adjust settings on patients' assistive devices such as temporary pacemakers.
- Collaborate with patients to plan for future health care needs or to coordinate transitions and referrals.
- Assist patients in organizing their health care system activities.
- 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.
- Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work.
- Prescribe medications and observe patients' reactions, modifying prescriptions as needed.
- Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in acute care.
- Participate in patients' care meetings and conferences.
- Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability.
- Treat wounds or superficial lacerations.
- Assess the needs of patients' family members or caregivers.
- Analyze the indications, contraindications, risk complications, and cost-benefit tradeoffs of therapeutic interventions.
- Perform administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer, or discharge of patients.
- Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines.
- Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
Related Technology & Tools
- Transvenous pacemakers
- Cardiac monitors
- Nasal suctioning equipment
- Traction weights
- Transfer boards
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Apnea monitors
- Endotracheal ET tubes
- Urinalysis test strips
- Swan Ganz artery catheters
- Venous Oxygen Saturation SVO2 monitors
- Surgical staple removers
- Protective medical face masks
- Pulmonary artery catheters
- Telemetry monitors
- Umbilical catheters
- Wheelchairs
- Suture removal kits
- End tidal carbon dioxide monitors
- Orthopedic splinting equipment
- Thoracentesis kits
- Wood's lamps
- Urinary catheters
- Arterial blood gas testing equipment
- Patient restraints
- Incision drainage equipment
- Chest drains
- Straight hemostats
- Newborn warming lamps
- Pneumatic boots
- Intravenous IV administration sets
- Desktop computers
- Electrosurgical cauterization machines
- Ophthalmic slit lamps
- Nasogastric tubes
- Sandbags
- Urine analysis equipment
- Enema equipment
- Electronic compressor nebulizers
- Epidural catheters
- Incentive spirometers
- Microscope slides
- Safety goggles
- Tablet computers
- Lancets
- Ostomy equipment
- Ring cutters
- Pill splitters
- Pericardiocentesis kits
- Blood drawing syringes
- Bedpans
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Magill forceps
- Tracheotomy sets
- Oral suctioning equipment
- Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
- Laptop computers
- Oxygen flowmeters
- Medical gurneys
- Pill crushers
- Tracheal suctioning equipment
- Clinical trapeze traction bars
- Mechanical intermittent positive pressure ventilators
- Transport cardiac monitors
- Intravenous IV cutdown trays
- Bronchoscopes
- Pediatric crash carts
- Vaginal exam specula
- Nasal catheters
- Sphygmomanometers
- Crash carts
- Specialty patient care beds
- Fetal monitors
- Visual acuity charts
- Eye lavage kits
- Medical examination protective gloves
- Blood pressure monitors
- Patient walkers
- Cast cutting saws
- Angiocaths
- Reflex hammers
- Backboards
- Intubation sets
- Electrocardiography EKG machines
- Tourniquets
- Otoscopes
- Laceration repair trays
- Isolettes
- Protective face shields
- Doppler ultrasound equipment
- Enteral feeding sets
- Multiple lumen central line catheters
- Ultrasound transducers
- Hemodynamic monitors
- Diagnostic tuning forks
- Blood glucometers
- Handheld nebulizers
- Nasal specula
- Ophthalmoscopes
- Surgical scalpels
- Oxygen delivery masks
- Arterial line catheters
- Bulb syringes
- Breast pumps
- Digital medical thermometers
- Pulse oximeters
- Crutches
- Alligator forceps
- Specimen collection containers
- Ear curettes
- Ophthalmic tonometers
- Intracranial pressure monitors
- Medical scales
- Nasopharyngeal airways
- Hyper/hypothermia blankets
- Surgical razors
- Autotransfusion systems
- Automated medicine dispensing equipment
- Occlusion clamps
- Protective gowns
- Manual resuscitation bags
- Transcutaneous pacemakers
- Surgical irrigation sets
- Skin staplers
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Tongue blades
- Graduated glass laboratory cylinders
- Intravenous infusion pumps
- Ring forceps
- Cast carts
- Straight surgical scissors
- Fiberoptic endoscopes
- Hypodermic syringes
- Oxygen concentrators
- Thoracentesis trays
- Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
- Microsoft Office
- Cerner Millennium
- Microsoft Excel
- e-MDs software
- Amkai AmkaiCharts
- StatCom Patient Flow Logistics Enterprise Suite
- NextGen Healthcare Information Systems EMR
- eClinicalWorks
- Bizmatics PrognoCIS EMR
- SynaMed EMR
- Texas Medical Software SpringCharts EMR
- GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
- Medscribbler Enterprise
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- MicroFour PracticeStudio.NET EMR
- SOAPware EMR
- ChartWare EMR
- Allscripts Professional EHR