Critical care nurse vs staff nurse for emergency department

Differences between critical care nurse and staff nurse for emergency department duties and responsibilities

Critical care nurse example responsibilities.

• Interpret laboratory results, EKG readings, cardiac monitors, managing medication drips, and ventilator settings.
• Monitor chemotherapy and administration of oral chemo medication, obtain laboratory specimens to manage client status via central lines.
• Work on the general units of rehabilitation, geriatrics, and telemetry.
• Work in critical care floors ranging from MICU to SICU to regular ICU.
• Perform emergency medical procedures such as BLS, ACLS, and other condition stabilizing interventions.
• Care for patients with a wide variety of critical illnesses and are CCRN certify for many years.
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Staff nurse for emergency department example responsibilities.

• Maintain current professional practice standards, complete education in telemetry, and attain ACLS certification.
• Manage nursing interventions for stabilization of critically ill patients and continually monitor, intervene as needed in their care.
• Maintain BLS, ACLS and TCRN certifications.
• Stabilize patients in crisis using BLS and ALS protocols.
• Monitor patients for irregular rhythms; interpret rhythms strips and EKG's.
• Assign team members and coordinate rapid response team during transfer of patients to the ICU or tertiary hospitals.
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