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Critical care nursing
Critical care nursing is the field of nursing with a focus on the utmost care of the critically ill or unstable patients. Critical care nurses can be found working in a wide variety of environments and specialties, such as general intensive care units, medical intensive care units, surgical intensive care units, trauma intensive care units, coronary care units, cardiothoracic intensive care units, and some trauma center emergency departments. These specialists generally take care of critically ill patients who require mechanical ventilation by way of endotracheal intubation and/or titratable vasoactive intravenous medications.
== Specific Jobs and Personal Qualities ==
Critical Care Nurses are also known as ICU nurses. They treat patients who are chronically ill or at risk for deadly illnesses.〔Villanova University. "Nursing Careers: Critical Care Nurse." Critical Care Nursing. University Alliance, Bisk Education Inc., 2013. Web. 17 Nov. 2013.〕 ICU nurse apply their specialized knowledge base to care for and maintain the life support of critically ill patients who are often on the verge of death. On a day-to-day basis a critical care nurse will commonly, "perform assessments of critical conditions, give intensive therapy and intervention, advocate for their patients, and operate/maintain life support systems which include mechanical ventilation via endotracheal, tracheal, or nasotracheal intubation, and titration of continuous vasoactive intravenous medications in order to maintain a " mean arterial pressure that ensures adequate organ and tissue perfusion. 〔"Critical Care Nurse." DiscoverNursing.com. Johnson & Johnson Services, 3 Jan. 2013. Web. 17 Nov. 2013.〕 A more specific list of jobs done by these nurses include, “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, administering intravenous fluids and medications, ordering diagnostic tests, collaborating with fellow members of the critical care team, responding to life-threatening situations, using nursing standards and protocols for treatment, acting as patient advocate, and finally providing education and support to the patient’s families." 〔Villanova University〕 In order to balance and perform all of these high demanding tasks to the best of their abilities, these nurses must be very organized and structured.〔Critical Care Nurse〕
These nurses have quite a bit of good judgment or reasoning when it comes to making important decisions. Using the ability to grasp their situations, they use the skills previously mentioned to take in everything that is going on around them and make the right choice based on that.〔"The AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care." The AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care. American Association of Critical Care Nurses, 2013. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.〕
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