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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 “Chronic Condition Nurse”

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

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