How do they match: Acute Care Nurses

  • Care Transitions Manager
  • Nurse Manager
  • Progressive Care Manager

  • Assist patients in organizing their health care system activities.
  • Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
  • Adjust settings on patients' assistive devices, such as temporary pacemakers.
  • Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.
  • Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments.
  • Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays).
  • Provide formal and informal education to other staff members.

  • Adjust prostheses or other assistive devices.
  • Analyze test data or images to inform diagnosis or treatment.
  • Communicate detailed medical information to patients or family members.