# 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. - Code: 29-1141.01 (O*NET-SOC; SOC 2018 29-1141) - Family: [Healthcare Practitioners](https://foundation.org.ai/occupations#family-29), one of its 96 occupations - Tasks: 26 tasks (22 core and 4 supplemental) - Page: https://foundation.org.ai/occupations/29-1141.01 - JSON: https://foundation.org.ai/data/tasks/29-1141.01.json ## What the work is made of 1. Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition-stabilizing interventions. Core task · Task 18302 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 2. Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly. Core task · Task 18300 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 3. Document data related to patients' care, including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes. Core task · Task 18308 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 4. Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability. Core task · Task 18298 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 5. Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions. Core task · Task 18316 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 6. Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data. Core task · Task 18303 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 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 task · Task 18305 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 8. Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays). Core task · Task 18301 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 9. Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work. Core task · Task 18311 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 10. Collaborate with patients to plan for future health care needs or to coordinate transitions and referrals. Core task · Task 18319 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 11. Refer patients for specialty consultations or treatments. Core task · Task 18315 · Rated by 27 occupational experts, July 2014 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 task · Task 18310 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 13. Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members. Core task · Task 18307 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 14. Distinguish between normal and abnormal developmental and age-related physiological and behavioral changes in acute, critical, and chronic illness. Core task · Task 18299 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 15. Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments. Core task · Task 18306 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 16. Assess the needs of patients' family members or caregivers. Core task · Task 18318 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 17. Perform administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer, or discharge of patients. Core task · Task 18323 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 18. Provide formal and informal education to other staff members. Core task · Task 18324 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 19. Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in acute care. Core task · Task 18321 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 20. Treat wounds or superficial lacerations. Core task · Task 18309 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 21. Participate in patients' care meetings and conferences. Core task · Task 18313 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 22. Participate in the development of practice protocols. Core task · Task 18322 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 23. Adjust settings on patients' assistive devices, such as temporary pacemakers. Supplemental task · Task 18304 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 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 task · Task 18312 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 25. Analyze the indications, contraindications, risk complications, and cost-benefit tradeoffs of therapeutic interventions. Supplemental task · Task 18297 · Rated by 28 occupational experts, July 2014 26. Assist patients in organizing their health care system activities. 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