Description
Provide specialized nursing care for patients in critical or coronary care units.
Interests
- Social
- Investigative
- Realistic
Work Values
- Relationships
- Support
- Achievement
Work Styles
- Attention to Detail
- Integrity
- Dependability
- Stress Tolerance
- Concern for Others
Tasks
- Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs.
- Monitor patients for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions.
- Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods.
- Monitor patients' fluid intake and output to detect emerging problems, such as fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
- Prioritize nursing care for assigned critically ill patients, based on assessment data or identified needs.
Work Activities
- Assisting and Caring for Others
- Getting Information
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
Detailed Work Activities
- Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Technology Skills
- Medical software
- Information retrieval or search software
- Document management software
- Office suite software
- Cloud-based data access and sharing software
Abilities
- Oral Comprehension
- Problem Sensitivity
- Deductive Reasoning
- Inductive Reasoning
- Oral Expression
Skills
- Monitoring
- Active Listening
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Service Orientation
Knowledge
- Medicine and Dentistry
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
- Psychology
- Biology
Most Common Education Level
The “Most Common Education Level” refers to the level of education held by the majority of workers in a given occupation. For example, if the highest percentage of workers in a role have an Associate’s Degree, that suggests this is the typical educational requirement. Knowing this helps you plan how many years of education you may need to pursue that career.
Certificates
Certificate name
Nursing Professional Development CertificationCertifying Organization
ANA Enterprise
Type
Specialty
Certificate name
Certified Clinical Transplant NurseCertifying Organization
American Board for Transplant Certification
Type
Specialty
Certificate name
Ambulatory Care Nursing CertificationCertifying Organization
ANA Enterprise
Type
Specialty
Certificate name
Critical Care Registered Nurse (Pediatric)Certifying Organization
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
Type
Specialty
Income Percentile
The income percentiles show how earnings are distributed within a profession. The 10th percentile means that 10% of workers earned less than that amount. The median (50th percentile) indicates that half of workers earned more, and half earned less. The 90th percentile reflects what the top 10% of earners in the field make.
| Income Percentile | Annual Income |
|---|---|
| Low (10%) | N/A |
| Median (50%) | N/A |
| High (90%) | N/A |
Income by Experience
This table shows how income typically grows with experience—from entry level (0–2 years), to mid-level (3–5 years), to senior level (6–8 years), to expert level (8+ years).
| Experience | Income |
|---|---|
Entry Level  | N/A |
| Mid Level | N/A |
| Senior Level | N/A |
| Expert Level | N/A |
Employability
There are currently 3,300,100 jobs in this career path. Over the next 10 years, that number is expected to increase to 3,497,300 positions, reflecting a projected growth of 6%.
The Projected Job Growth figure refers to the expected increase or decrease in employment within a specific career field over a certain period of time.
Projected Job Growth of 6%
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