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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.

Currently Employed: 2,737,400

Yearly Projected Openings: 120,740

Typical Hourly Wage: $25.80 - $37.84

Typical Annual Salary: $53,700 - $78,700

• Prescribe medications and observe patients' reactions, modifying prescriptions as needed.
• Document data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.
• Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition stabilizing interventions.
• Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability.

• Cardiac output CO monitoring units or accessories
• Floor grade forceps or hemostats
• Medical staff isolation or surgical masks
• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
• Suction kits