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 urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.
  • Distinguish between normal and abnormal developmental and age-related physiological and behavioral changes in acute, critical, and chronic illness.
  • Document data related to patients' care, including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.

  • Analyze patient data to determine patient needs or treatment goals.
  • Analyze test data or images to inform diagnosis or treatment.