Occupation information for Acute Care Nurses District Of Columbia

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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.

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Currently Employed: 10,580

Projected Annual Job Openings: 620

Typical Hourly Wage: $37.72 - $50.95

Typical Annual Salary: $78,460 - $105,980

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Typical education needed for entry: Bachelor's degree

Typical work experience needed for a job in this occupation: No work experience

Typical on-the-job training once you have a job in this occupation: No on-the-job training

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  • 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.
  • Document data related to patients' care, including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.
  • Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions.
  • Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability.
  • Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.
  • Adjust settings on patients' assistive devices, such as temporary pacemakers.
  • 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.
  • Prescribe medications and observe patients' reactions, modifying prescriptions as needed.
  • Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays).
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Tools:
  • Arterial line catheters
  • Cardiac output CO monitoring units
  • Cardiac pacemaker generators or cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers CRT-P
  • Medical or surgical suction or vacuum appliances
  • Surgical clamps or clips or forceps

Technology:
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Electronic mail software
  • Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • Medical software
  • Office suite software
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