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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”

Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in acute care.
Adjust settings on patients' assistive devices such as temporary pacemakers.
Treat wounds or superficial lacerations.
Participate in the development of practice protocols.
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).
Prescribe medications and observe patients' reactions, modifying prescriptions as needed.
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.
Assess the needs of patients' family members or caregivers.
Provide formal and informal education to other staff members.
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.
Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work.
Assess urgent and emergent health conditions using both physiologically and technologically derived data.
Assist patients in organizing their health care system activities.
Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions.
Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions.
Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability.
Participate in patients' care meetings and conferences.
Distinguish between normal and abnormal developmental and age-related physiological and behavioral changes in acute, critical, and chronic illness.
Perform administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer, or discharge of patients.
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.
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.
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.

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