Acute Care Nurses
Also called:
Nurse Manager, Nursing Director, Progressive Care Unit Registered Nurse
What they do:
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.
On the job, you would:
- Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions.
- Document data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.
- Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
Arts and Humanities
Health
- medicine and dentistry
- therapy and counseling
Business
- customer service
- management
Math and Science
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Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- talking to others
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Social
- looking for ways to help people
- understanding people's reactions
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Verbal
- listen and understand what people say
- communicate by speaking
Ideas and Logic
- notice when problems happen
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
Hand and Finger Use
- keep your arm or hand steady
- put together small parts with your fingers
Visual Understanding
- quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things
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People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Attention to Detail
- Integrity
- Stress Tolerance
- Concern for Others
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Dependability
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You might use software like this on the job:
Medical software
- eClinicalWorks software
- GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
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associate's degree or
bachelor's degree
usually needed
Get started on your career:
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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.
$65,470
per year, on average
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