Job Summary:

• Critical care registered nurses are adept at providing such care in settings where patients have suffered a heart attack, stroke, shock, severe trauma, respiratory distress or other severe medical issues.


• Specific critical care nurse duties and responsibilities can 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/adjusting ventilator/IABP.


• Administering intravenous fluids an...