Critical Care Nurses
Also called: Critical Care Nurse Practitioner, Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN), ICU Nurse (Intensive Care Unit Nurse), Staff Nurse
What they do:
Provide specialized nursing care for patients in critical or coronary care units.
On the job, you would:
- Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs.
- Monitor patients for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions.
- Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods.
Health
Business
Arts and Humanities
Math and Science
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Basic Skills
Problem Solving
Social
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Verbal
Ideas and Logic
Visual Understanding
Attention
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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:
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You might use software like this on the job: Medical software
Cloud-based data access and sharing software
Information retrieval or search software
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You might like a career in one of these industries:
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See more details at O*NET OnLine about critical care nurses.