Intensive
Care Nurse
There is a growing demand for advanced
practice nurses throughout the healthcare
industry, especially in the area of critical
and emergency care. Become an intensive
care nurse and find out firsthand what
it means to belong to a challenging and
fulfilling medical team. Your education
and background forms a core, specialized
body of knowledge that will help you
treat injuries and illness for critical
patients.
The origin of today's intensive care traces
back to the early 1950s. Hospitals created
special wards designated to treat individual
patients needing more one-to-one nursing
care. These patients suffered from a
variety of sicknesses or injuries, such
as trauma due to accidents or major organ
failure. From this emerging field of
medicine grew what we now know as intensive,
or critical care.
Advanced medical technology and understanding
of human anatomy is directly linked to
the revolution of critical care. As caring
for patients became a complex process
of diagnostic testing and technical monitoring,
the need to stay on top of current medial
knowledge became a very real demand.
Today, intensive care nurses are highly
trained to detect problems within a patient's
treatment plan, and to use a variety
of advanced technology in order to manage
a patient's treatment program.
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