Acute Care Nurses

A typical week, in the words of people in the job

1. 01Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in acute care.
2. 02Assess the impact of illnesses or injuries on patients' health, function, growth, development, nutrition, sleep, rest, quality of life, or family, social and educational relationships.
3. 03Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
4. 04Assess the needs of patients' family members or caregivers.
5. 05Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members.
6. 06Analyze the indications, contraindications, risk complications, and cost-benefit tradeoffs of therapeutic interventions.
7. 07Document data related to patients' care, including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.
8. 08Participate in patients' care meetings and conferences.
9. 09Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays).
10. 10Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments.
11. 11Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work.
12. 12Participate in the development of practice protocols.

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