How do they match: Acute Care Nurses

  • Chronic Condition Nurse

  • 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.

  • Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.
  • Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability.
  • Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition-stabilizing interventions.

  • Diagnose medical conditions.
  • Monitor patient conditions during treatments, procedures, or activities.