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 the impact of illnesses or injuries on patients' health, function, growth, development, nutrition, sleep, rest, quality of life, or family, social and educational relationships.
  • Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments.
  • Distinguish between normal and abnormal developmental and age-related physiological and behavioral changes in acute, critical, and chronic illness.
  • Participate in the development of practice protocols.
  • Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in acute care.

  • Train medical providers.
  • Adjust prostheses or other assistive devices.