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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 “Charge Nurse”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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