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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 “Nursing Director”

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

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