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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 “Preceptor”

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

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Urine analysis equipment
Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
Laceration repair trays
Patient walkers
Safety goggles
Otoscopes
Handheld nebulizers
Sandbags
Thoracentesis trays
Diagnostic tuning forks
Pediatric crash carts
Enteral feeding sets
Specimen collection containers
Transfer boards
Breast pumps
Medical examination protective gloves
Hypodermic syringes
Automated medicine dispensing equipment
Pulmonary artery catheters
Wood's lamps
Protective medical face masks
Traction weights
Oxygen concentrators
Ophthalmic slit lamps
Intravenous IV administration sets
Tongue blades
Intracranial pressure monitors
Clinical trapeze traction bars
Specialty patient care beds
Protective face shields
Venous Oxygen Saturation SVO2 monitors
Automated external defibrillators AED
Alligator forceps
Suture removal kits
Nasal specula
Bedpans
Tracheotomy sets
Blood pressure monitors
Graduated glass laboratory cylinders
Desktop computers
Mechanical stethoscopes
Transport cardiac monitors
Enema equipment
Crutches
Pill splitters
Nasopharyngeal airways
Reflex hammers
Vaginal exam specula
Tracheal suctioning equipment
Protective gowns
Patient restraints
Urinary catheters
Isolettes
Hyper/hypothermia blankets
Skin staplers
Cardiac monitors
Arterial blood gas testing equipment
Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation TENS equipment
Multiple lumen central line catheters
Autotransfusion systems
Blood glucometers
Electrosurgical cauterization machines
Bronchoscopes
Transvenous pacemakers
Angiocaths
Oral suctioning equipment
End tidal carbon dioxide monitors
Pneumatic boots
Ultrasound transducers
Ophthalmic tonometers
Nasal catheters
Tablet computers
Ostomy equipment
Intravenous IV cutdown trays
Thoracentesis kits
Ring forceps
Transcutaneous pacemakers
Manual resuscitation bags
Telemetry monitors
Ophthalmoscopes
Occlusion clamps
Nasal suctioning equipment
Medical scales
Oxygen delivery masks
Doppler ultrasound equipment
Fiberoptic endoscopes
Nasogastric tubes
Ring cutters
Intravenous infusion pumps
Blood drawing syringes
Intubation sets
Orthopedic splinting equipment
Surgical scalpels
Microscope slides
Surgical staple removers
Incision drainage equipment
Medical gurneys
Laptop computers
Visual acuity charts
Surgical irrigation sets
Evacuated blood collection tubes
Ear curettes
Arterial line catheters
Straight surgical scissors
Mechanical intermittent positive pressure ventilators
Cast cutting saws
Electrocardiography EKG machines
Eye lavage kits
Straight hemostats
Incentive spirometers
Electronic compressor nebulizers
Hemodynamic monitors
Newborn warming lamps
Oxygen flowmeters
Swan Ganz artery catheters
Chest drains
Surgical razors
Fetal monitors
Epidural catheters
Pericardiocentesis kits
Wheelchairs
Crash carts
Lancets
Backboards
Tourniquets
Sphygmomanometers
Pill crushers
Digital medical thermometers
Pulse oximeters
Magill forceps
Urinalysis test strips
Bulb syringes
Endotracheal ET tubes
Apnea monitors
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