How do they match: Acute Care Nurses

  • Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions.
  • Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.
  • Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices, such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines.

  • Monitor patient conditions during treatments, procedures, or activities.
  • Monitor patients following surgeries or other treatments.