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Pediatric Acute Care Unit Nurse

Acute Care Nurses
Description
Provide advanced, family-centered nursing care to infants, children, and adolescents with acute illnesses or injuries in a pediatric acute care unit. Perform pediatric-specific assessments and interventions, manage invasive devices and pre- and post-operative care, assist with stabilization, and coordinate safe transitions across settings.
Skills
Content
  • • Reading Comprehension
  • • Active Listening
  • • Writing
  • • Speaking
  • • Science
Process
  • • Critical Thinking
  • • Active Learning
  • • Learning Strategies
  • • Monitoring
Social Skills
  • • Social Perceptiveness
  • • Coordination
  • • Persuasion
  • • Negotiation
  • • Instructing
  • • Service Orientation
Complex Problem Solving Skills
  • • Complex Problem Solving
Technical Skills
  • • Operations Monitoring
Systems Skills
  • • Judgment and Decision Making
  • • Systems Analysis
  • • Systems Evaluation
Resource Management Skills
  • • Time Management
  • • Management of Personnel Resources
Abilities
Verbal Abilities
  • • Oral Comprehension
  • • Written Comprehension
  • • Oral Expression
  • • Written Expression
Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities
  • • Fluency of Ideas
  • • Originality
  • • Problem Sensitivity
  • • Deductive Reasoning
  • • Inductive Reasoning
  • • Information Ordering
  • • Category Flexibility
Perceptual Abilities
  • • Perceptual Speed
Attentiveness
  • • Selective Attention
  • • Time Sharing
Visual Abilities
  • • Near Vision
  • • Visual Color Discrimination
Auditory and Speech Abilities
  • • Speech Recognition
  • • Speech Clarity
Knowledge
Business and Management
  • • Customer and Personal Service
Mathematics and Science
  • • Mathematics
  • • Biology
  • • Psychology
  • • Sociology and Anthropology
Health Services
  • • Medicine and Dentistry
  • • Therapy and Counseling
Arts and Humanities
  • • English Language
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Source
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
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