Jobs / Healthcare / 29-1141.03
Critical Care Nurses
Provide specialized nursing care for patients in critical or coronary care units.
- US jobs
- 3,379,720 (SOC 29-1141 group, "Registered Nurses")
- Median wage
- $97,550 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of critical care nurses?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Healthcare: Some tasks (no change in 12 months)
Agents complete 20% or more of the tasks (or projects) on a direct benchmark.
Evidence: MedAgentBench, 69.7% of tasks completed.
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark (figures for the SOC 29-1141 group).
- 8%Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient careNot measured
- 8%Monitor health conditions of humans or animalsNot measured
- 6%Analyze health or medical dataNot measured
- 6%Maintain health or medical recordsNot measured
- 5%Develop operational or technical procedures or standardsNot measured
- 5%Administer basic health care or medical treatmentsNot measured
- 4%Train others on health or medical topicsNot measured
- 4%Evaluate patient or client condition or treatment optionsNot measured
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
Direct evidence
Work benchmarks mapped primary to this family. They set the step when they report how many tasks agents complete.
Also relevant
These benchmarks cover part of this family's work, or have no result yet. They do not set its step.
Context only
These benchmarks span many occupations, or they test how agents behave. They give context but do not set the step.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs.
- Monitor patients for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions.
- Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods.
- Monitor patients' fluid intake and output to detect emerging problems, such as fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
- Prioritize nursing care for assigned critically ill patients, based on assessment data or identified needs.
- Compile and analyze data obtained from monitoring or diagnostic tests.
- Conduct pulmonary assessments to identify abnormal respiratory patterns or breathing sounds that indicate problems.
- Assess patients' pain levels or sedation requirements.
- Collaborate with other health care professionals to develop and revise treatment plans, based on identified needs and assessment data.
- Document patients' medical histories and assessment findings.
- Collect specimens for laboratory tests.
- Set up and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, or pressure lines.
Other job titles for this occupation (38)
Certified Critical Care Nurse · Critical Care Nurse Practitioner · Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) · ICU Critical Care NP (Intensive Care Unit Critical Care Nurse Practitioner) · ICU Nurse (Intensive Care Unit Nurse) · Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse (ICU RN) · Newborn ICU RN (Newborn Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse) · Nurse · Pediatric Critical Care Nurse Practitioner · Staff Nurse · CCU RN (Cardiac Care Unit Registered Nurse) · CCU RN (Coronary Care Unit Registered Nurse) · CCU RN (Critical Care Unit Registered Nurse) · Critical Care Nurse (CCN) · Critical Care Nurse Specialist · Critical Care Unit Nurse · CVICU RN (Cardiac ICU Registered Nurse) · CVICU RN (Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse) · ER RN (Emergency Room Registered Nurse) · ICU Travel RN (Intensive Care Unit Travel Registered Nurse) · Intensive Care Registered Nurse (Intensive Care RN) · Neonatal Critical Care Nurse · Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse · Neuro ICU RN (Neuro Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse) · Neuro ICU RN (Neurological Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse) · Neuro ICU RN (Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse) · NICU RN (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse) · PCU RN (Progressive Care Unit Registered Nurse) · Pediatric Critical Care Nurse · PICU RN (Pediatric Intensive Care Registered Nurse) · PICU RN (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse) · Progressive Care Nurse · Registered Nurse (RN) · Step Down RN (Step Down Registered Nurse) · Step-Down Nurse · Telemetry Nurse · Trauma RN (Trauma Registered Nurse) · Vascular Nurse