How do they match: Acute Care Nurses

  • Acute Care Nurses

  • Care Transitions Manager
  • Care Transitions Nurse
  • Acute Care Nurse
  • Cardiac Interventional Care Nurse
  • Pediatric Acute Care Unit Nurse
  • Progressive Care Manager
  • Progressive Care Unit RN
  • Progressive Care Unit Registered Nurse

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Assist patients in organizing their health care system activities.
  • Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments.
  • Collaborate with patients to plan for future health care needs or to coordinate transitions and referrals.
  • 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.
  • Participate in patients' care meetings and conferences.
  • Provide formal and informal education to other staff members.
  • Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in acute care.