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Critical Care/ICU/ CCU RN Responsibilities

• Critical Care Registered Nurses must be proficient in a wide variety of high-level nursing skills.
• Exceptional Critical Care RNs have strong interpersonal communication, leadership, and critical thinking
• Assessing a patient's condition and planning and implementing patient care plans
• Assisting physicians in performing procedures
• Observing and recording vital signs
• Evaluating and ordering diagnostic tests
• Monitor the patients well-being, both emotional and physical
• Collaborates with members of the critical care team
• Administers intravenous fluids and medications
• Responds to life threatening situations using nursing standards and protocols for treatment
• Treats wounds and provides advanced life support
• Ensured ventilators, monitors, and other types of medical equipment static function properly
• Acts as patient advocate
• Provides education and support to patient families
• The Critical Care RN performs other position related duties as assigned