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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

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Tasks for “Acute Care Nurses”

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

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Hypodermic syringes
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Incentive spirometers
Venous Oxygen Saturation SVO2 monitors
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Cast carts
Pill splitters
Autotransfusion systems
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Newborn warming lamps
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Lancets
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Traction weights
Pneumatic boots
Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
Manual resuscitation bags
Electronic compressor nebulizers
Telemetry monitors
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Electrocardiography EKG machines
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Intravenous IV cutdown trays
Electrosurgical cauterization machines
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Bulb syringes
Digital medical thermometers
Angiocaths
Endotracheal ET tubes
Hyper/hypothermia blankets
Patient restraints
Tongue blades
Diagnostic tuning forks
Clinical trapeze traction bars
Chest drains
Cardiac monitors
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Cast cutting saws
Straight hemostats
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Visual acuity charts
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Medical scales
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Oxygen concentrators
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Medical examination protective gloves
Wood's lamps
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Straight surgical scissors
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Multiple lumen central line catheters
Fetal monitors
Transport cardiac monitors
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Incision drainage equipment
Sandbags
Blood glucometers
Orthopedic splinting equipment
Intravenous IV administration sets
Pill crushers
Breast pumps
Ring forceps
Thoracentesis trays
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Handheld nebulizers
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Skin staplers
Nasal specula
Patient walkers
Mechanical stethoscopes
Transfer boards
Crash carts
Ophthalmic slit lamps
Intubation sets
Thoracentesis kits
Bedpans
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