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Acute Care Nurses

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.

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26 tasks22 core, 4 supplemental
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Healthcare PractitionersOne of its 96 occupations
Code
29-1141.01SOC 2018: 29-1141

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22 core tasks and 4 supplemental, each quoted as published, with the survey it came from.

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  1. Task 1. Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition-stabilizing interventions.Core taskTask 18302Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  2. Task 2. Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.Core taskTask 18300Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  3. Task 3. Document data related to patients' care, including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.Core taskTask 18308Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  4. Task 4. Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability.Core taskTask 18298Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  5. Task 5. Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions.Core taskTask 18316Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  6. Task 6. Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.Core taskTask 18303Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  7. Task 7. 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.Core taskTask 18305Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  8. Task 8. Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays).Core taskTask 18301Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  9. Task 9. Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work.Core taskTask 18311Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  10. Task 10. Collaborate with patients to plan for future health care needs or to coordinate transitions and referrals.Core taskTask 18319Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  11. Task 11. Refer patients for specialty consultations or treatments.Core taskTask 18315Rated by 27 occupational experts, July 2014
  12. Task 12. Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices, such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines.Core taskTask 18310Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  13. Task 13. Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members.Core taskTask 18307Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  14. Task 14. Distinguish between normal and abnormal developmental and age-related physiological and behavioral changes in acute, critical, and chronic illness.Core taskTask 18299Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  15. Task 15. Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments.Core taskTask 18306Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  16. Task 16. Assess the needs of patients' family members or caregivers.Core taskTask 18318Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  17. Task 17. Perform administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer, or discharge of patients.Core taskTask 18323Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  18. Task 18. Provide formal and informal education to other staff members.Core taskTask 18324Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  19. Task 19. Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in acute care.Core taskTask 18321Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  20. Task 20. Treat wounds or superficial lacerations.Core taskTask 18309Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  21. Task 21. Participate in patients' care meetings and conferences.Core taskTask 18313Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  22. Task 22. Participate in the development of practice protocols.Core taskTask 18322Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  23. Task 23. Adjust settings on patients' assistive devices, such as temporary pacemakers.Supplemental taskTask 18304Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  24. Task 24. 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.Supplemental taskTask 18312Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  25. Task 25. Analyze the indications, contraindications, risk complications, and cost-benefit tradeoffs of therapeutic interventions.Supplemental taskTask 18297Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014
  26. Task 26. Assist patients in organizing their health care system activities.Supplemental taskTask 18317Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014

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