• Assessing a patient’s condition and planning and implementing patient care plans
• Treating wounds and providing advanced life support
• Assisting physicians in performing procedures
• Observing and recording patient vital signs
• Ensuring that ventilators, monitors and other types of medical equipment function properly
• Emergency rooms
• Critical care wards
• Walk-in clinics
• Doctor offices and other healthcare settings.
• Average annual salary for a critical care nurse was $97,990
• Bottom 10% of critical care nurses earned an average of $68,830 a year
• Top-10% of ICU's earned $131,050 annually
• Active Listening
• Service Orientation
• Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Reading Comprehension
• Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
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• Social Perceptiveness
• Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Level 1 Novice Nurse
• Level 2 Proficient Nurse
• Level 3 Expert Nurse
• Senior Level 3 Mentor Nurse
• Level 4 Nurse Leader
• Acute Care Nurses
• Psychiatric Technician
• Radiation Therapist
• Repertory Therapist
• Licensed professional nurses that ensure all critically ill patients receive optimal care for the illnesses and injuries.
• Perform complex assessments, high intensity therapy and intervention, and advocate on behalf of the patients
• Employ a specialized skill set and knowledge of the human body
• A minimum of 1,750 hours of experience in the previous two years working directly with acutely and/or critically ill patients, with 875 hours during the most recent year.
• Five years of experience that include a minimum of 2,000 hours working directly with acutely and/or critically ill patients, with 144 hours during the most recent year.
• RN degree from an accredited university
• Licensed as a registered nurse
• Master's level nursing
• Treating wounds and providing advanced life support
• Assisting physicians in performing procedures
• Observing and recording patient vital signs
• Ensuring that ventilators, monitors and other types of medical equipment function properly
• Emergency rooms
• Critical care wards
• Walk-in clinics
• Doctor offices and other healthcare settings.
• Average annual salary for a critical care nurse was $97,990
• Bottom 10% of critical care nurses earned an average of $68,830 a year
• Top-10% of ICU's earned $131,050 annually
• Active Listening
• Service Orientation
• Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Reading Comprehension
• Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• …show more content…
• Social Perceptiveness
• Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Level 1 Novice Nurse
• Level 2 Proficient Nurse
• Level 3 Expert Nurse
• Senior Level 3 Mentor Nurse
• Level 4 Nurse Leader
• Acute Care Nurses
• Psychiatric Technician
• Radiation Therapist
• Repertory Therapist
• Licensed professional nurses that ensure all critically ill patients receive optimal care for the illnesses and injuries.
• Perform complex assessments, high intensity therapy and intervention, and advocate on behalf of the patients
• Employ a specialized skill set and knowledge of the human body
• A minimum of 1,750 hours of experience in the previous two years working directly with acutely and/or critically ill patients, with 875 hours during the most recent year.
• Five years of experience that include a minimum of 2,000 hours working directly with acutely and/or critically ill patients, with 144 hours during the most recent year.
• RN degree from an accredited university
• Licensed as a registered nurse
• Master's level nursing