How do they match: Acute Care Nurses

  • 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.

  • Provide formal and informal education to other staff members.
  • Manage patients' pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitoring patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly.

  • Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment.
  • Train medical providers.