How do they match: Acute Care Nurses

  • 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.
  • Assess the needs of patients' family members or caregivers.
  • 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.
  • Document data related to patients' care, including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.
  • 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.

  • Assess patient work, living, or social environments.