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Critical Care Nurse

Medical

  • Average Salary

    RM2600 - RM 4900

  • Career Trends

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  • Compability

What is Critical Care Nurse?

Provide advanced nursing care for patients in critical or coronary care units.

Minimum education level

 

PT3

SPM

STPM

Diploma

Degree

Average Salary

RM2600 - RM 4900

Example of a Job Position

Burn Nurse
Senior Manager of Laboratory Catheterization
Licensed Critical Care Nurse (CCRN)
Critical Unit Manager
Nurse Staff
ICU Resource Team
Licensed Nurse Supervisor
Nurse Unit Intensive Care
ICU Nurse Staff

Task

? 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 ? Set up and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, or pressure lines ? Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods ? Assess patients' pain levels or sedation requirements

Knowledge

Communication and Media

Knowledge of media production, communication, and techniques and methods of dissemination. Includes alternative ways to inform and entertain through writing, verbal, and visual media.

Psychology

Knowledge of human performance and behavior; differences in individual abilities, personalities and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

Customer and Personal Services

Knowledge of principles and processes to provide services for customers and personal. This includes assessing customer needs, meeting service quality standards, and evaluating customer satisfaction.

English

Knowledge of the structure and content of English, including the meaning and spelling of each word, composition rules, and grammar.

Biology

Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, function, interdependence, and their interactions with the environment and each other.

Skills

Active Listening

Give full attention to the words of others, set aside time to understand the points presented, ask questions appropriately, and not interrupt at the wrong time

Monitor

Monitor / assess the performance of themselves, other individuals, and organizations to develop or take corrective actions.

Serving Orientation

Actively looking for the right way to help others.'

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to the problems handled

Reading Understanding

Understand sentences and paragraphs written in work documents.

Capability

  • 1

    Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas when speaking, so that others can understand what is being conveyed

  • 2

    Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to certain problems in order to produce reasonable answers.

  • 3

    Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules and conclusions (including finding relationships between seemingly unconnected events).

  • 4

    Oral Understanding - The ability to listen and understand information and ideas conveyed through words and oral sentences

  • 5

    Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or maybe wrong. This does not involve solving the problem, only knowing if there is a problem.

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