Acute Care Nurses Salary in VA

Common tasks

• Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members.
• Diagnose acute or chronic conditions that could result in rapid physiological deterioration or life-threatening instability.
• Perform emergency medical procedures, such as basic cardiac life support (BLS), advanced cardiac life support (ACLS), and other condition-stabilizing interventions.
• Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.
• Set up, operate, or monitor invasive equipment and devices, such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, mechanical ventilators, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines.
• Document data related to patients' care, including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes.
• Administer blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions.
• Interpret information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays).
• Perform administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer, or discharge of patients.
• Obtain specimens or samples for laboratory work.