| Important Core Job Duties (in order of importance) For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Monitor patients for changes in status and indications of conditions such as sepsis or shock and institute appropriate interventions. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Participate in professional organizations and continuing education to improve practice knowledge and skills. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Assess patients' psychosocial status and needs, including areas such as sleep patterns, anxiety, grief, anger, and support systems. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Document patients' treatment plans, interventions, outcomes, or plan revisions. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Identify malfunctioning equipment or devices. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Assist physicians with procedures such as bronchoscopy, endoscopy, endotracheal intubation, or elective cardioversion. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Perform approved therapeutic or diagnostic procedures, based upon patients' clinical status. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Assess family adaptation levels and coping skills to determine whether intervention is needed. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Advocate for patients' and families' needs, or provide emotional support for patients and their families. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Administer blood and blood products, monitoring patients for signs and symptoms related to transfusion reactions. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Document patients' medical histories and assessment findings. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Collaborate with other health care professionals to develop and revise treatment plans, based on identified needs and assessment data. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Assess patients' pain levels or sedation requirements. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Conduct pulmonary assessments to identify abnormal respiratory patterns or breathing sounds that indicate problems. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Compile and analyze data obtained from monitoring or diagnostic tests. |
| Importance: 100 (%) | Description: Monitor patients' fluid intake and output to detect emerging problems, such as fluid and electrolyte imbalances. |
| Importance: 96 (%) | Description: Set up and monitor medical equipment and devices such as cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators and alarms, oxygen delivery devices, transducers, or pressure lines. |
| Importance: 96 (%) | Description: Identify patients' age-specific needs and alter care plans as necessary to meet those needs. |
| Importance: 96 (%) | Description: Identify patients at risk of complications due to nutritional status. |
| Importance: 96 (%) | Description: Prioritize nursing care for assigned critically ill patients, based on assessment data or identified needs. |
| Importance: 96 (%) | Description: Participate in the development, review, or evaluation of nursing practice protocols. |
| Importance: 96 (%) | Description: Coordinate patient care conferences. |
| Importance: 93 (%) | Description: Administer medications intravenously, by injection, orally, through gastric tubes, or by other methods. |
| Importance: 93 (%) | Description: Plan, provide, or evaluate educational programs for nursing staff, interdisciplinary health care team members, or community members. |
| Importance: 89 (%) | Description: Collect specimens for laboratory tests. |
| Importance: 89 (%) | Description: Provide post-mortem care. |
| Importance: 89 (%) | Description: Ensure that equipment or devices are properly stored after use. |
| Importance: 86 (%) | Description: Supervise and monitor unit nursing staff. |
Fashion Design and Technologies Careers and Jobs
Select, Find and Prepare for Fashion Design and Technologies Careers and Jobs - all on one page
For creative people who want both design skill and technical production knowledge in fashion. Use the tools below to see which fashion design and technologies roles fit your background and goals.
This major covers both the creative design side and the technical production side (patternmaking, textiles) of the fashion industry. Use the tools below to explore Fashion Design and Technologies-related job titles sorted by growth rate, salary, or required education. You can start with entry points like Design Assistant, or look ahead to advanced roles such as Fashion Designer or Production Manager. Along the way, you will see specific certifications, such as None formally required; portfolio-driven field, that can help you move up the career ladder.
Here is a short Helper Video 
This page will take you through 4 steps to (1) Select from Fashion Design and Technologies careers/jobs, (2) Find Fashion Design and Technologies job listings, (3) Prepare for Fashion Design and Technologies careers, and (4) Provide Fashion Design and Technologies career-specific resources.
Step 1: Select a Career/Job: This page starts with 4 ways for you to identify and select from listings of Fashion Design and Technologies careers/jobs:
A) Fastest Growing Fashion Design and Technologies Careers - 2025 to 2035 (est.)
These listings are based on job growth estimates and helps you to identify the fastest growing and evolving Fashion Design and Technologies careers. Some careers may not initially seem related to Fashion Design and Technologies, so relevant Fashion Design and Technologies jobs are listed alongside each listing. This can also help us to identify which careers (bottom of the listing) may have negative growth - perhaps due to automation or planned obsolescence.
B) Median Annual Salary U.S. Fashion Design and Technologies Careers
These listings are sorted (descending) by median annual salary in the U.S. This may help us to identify our ideal career. We may not qualify at this time for the desired career, but this listing and the results provided can help us to explore job details, as well as learn how to appropriately prepare for the career.
C) Fashion Design and Technologies Career Ladders (Educational Requirements)
These listings will help us to identify Fashion Design and Technologies careers sorted by educational requirements (with the most difficult to obtain listed first). This may help us to identify career ladders (as we scroll down the list), and help us to get jobs that we qualify for now.
D) Select From a Listing of 66 Fashion Design and Technologies Jobs.
The list may be quite long. There are two ways you might like to use this list:
1) Filter - As you enter a word, you will filter (limit) the list of job titles
2) Browse the list (Don't Filter) - You can simply explore the list of job titles. There may be many that you might never have considered to be of interest.
Once you have identified a job title of interest, simply click on it.
Step 2: Find a Job: After you have selected a career/job title above, you will see a form asking for your location. You will see several radio selection choices to utilize the job search site of your choice.
Step 3: Prepare For a Career: In this section you will gain access to detailed information to help you prepare for the chosen career. Information may include (not every career choice includes all of the elements below - updates occur quarterly):
Core Duties: Lists the primary worker-related tasks performed in this occupation
Supplemental Duties: Lists additional tasks that are performed but are secondary to the core duties
Work Activities: Summarizes the broad types of behaviors and actions related to this career
Specific Work Activities: Provides more granular day-to-day activities tied to the work performed
Essential Skills: Provides foundational skills that are core to performing this specific occupation
Transferable Skills: Provides career-portable skills that can be applied across multiple occupations and industries
Day-in-the-Life Summaries: Provides a snapshot of the key activities performed on a typical workday in this career
Knowledge Required: Provides the requirements regarding the acquisition of facts and principles
Software Skills: Lists software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized by category and priority
Preparation Required: Provides a summary of the required experience and education
Education Required: Detailed breakdown of the education required
Training and Experience Required: Detailed breakdown of the training and Training and Experience Required
Local Salary Information: Provides national and local salary ranges
Certifications: Provides appropriate government and private-sector certifications and/or credentials that may be required
Professional Associations: Provides professional associations that are related to the career selected
Job Listings: Provides links to active current job listings for the selected career, along with multiple similar job titles to explore. All information appears on this page without navigating away.
Related Careers to Consider: Lists up to 20 careers that might be of interest to you (related to your initial choice - what they do, what they know, and what they're called), ranked by best fit.
** If you clicked on a link from section D (as described in Step 1 above), you will see one or more links to an occupation that is usually a bit more general than your initial job selection - the link(s) is directly related to the specific job you identified through your prior selections.
*NOTE: It is possible that there may not be a career path identified for the specific job you selected in Step 1. If this is the case, scroll up the page and click on a different career/job.
Step 4: Career-Specific Resources (detailed and constantly updated): Continue to scroll down the page and you will find tabs that provide detailed (updated) links specific to the career you selected. This information includes:
Videos: Provides a listing of video links related to this career. A great way to get a quick overview of the occupation.
Resumes: Sources for resume materials and techniques. This can help to get you started.
Job Description: Sources that provide job descriptions, which are vital to resume and interview preparation.
Interviews: Provides links that can help you to prepare for and successfully complete the job interview. Can also assist with coffee chats.
Step by Step: Provides links to resources that can help to organize the career search process.
LinkedIn: One of the best professional social media sites that provides links, opportunities, and networking specifically for careers and career development.
Step 1 of 4: Select a Career/Job
28 Fashion Design and Technologies careers are listed below (sorted by Percentage Change in Total Job Openings - 2025 to 2035 est.). Fashion Design and Technologies-related jobs specific to each career are also provided. This shows which careers are emerging and growing the fastest. Please Scroll and Select below:
| Occupations | U.S. Job Openings 2025-2035 (% change) | Fashion Design and Technologies-Related Jobs |
28 Fashion Design and Technologies careers are listed below (sorted by U.S. National Median Salary). Fashion Design and Technologies-related jobs specific to each occupation are also provided. Please Scroll and Select below::
| Occupations | National Median Salary | Fashion Design and Technologies-Related Jobs |
29 Fashion Design and Technologies careers are listed (sorted by Education/Preparation Requirements - descending) to provide career ladders. Fashion Design and Technologies-related jobs specific to each career are also provided.
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Education/Preparation Categories: 5 = Usually requires graduate school (e.g., Master's degree, Ph.D., M.D., or J.D.) 4 = Usually requires a four-year Bachelor's degree 3 = Usually requires vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or Associate's degree 2 = Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, but not always Please Scroll and Select below: |
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| Occupations | Education/Preparation | Fashion Design and Technologies-Related Jobs |
Scroll through the picklist (below). There are 66 specific Fashion Design and Technologies job titles listed. Select those that may be of interest - you will get active job listing links, along with detailed resources to help you prepare for a career related to that job.
You can use this form two ways:
Filter - As you enter a keyword, you will filter (limit) the list of job titles below
Browse the list (Don't Filter) - You can simply explore the list of job titles. There may be many that you might never have considered to be of interest.
OR - leave blank and scroll through the choices:
Select a Job Title (Scroll and Select) :
Step 2 of 4: Find a Job
Find Job Listings:
Critical Care Nurses.
Step 3 of 4: Prepare For a Career
Critical Care Nurses
Description: Provide specialized nursing care for patients in critical or coronary care units.
Please click on a section below to expand and see detailed occupational information related to "Critical Care Nurses":
Core Duties
Work Activities
| Important General Work Activities (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 99 (%) | Description: Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients. |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
| Importance: 95 (%) | Description: Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
| Importance: 92 (%) | Description: Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
| Importance: 91 (%) | Description: Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
| Importance: 90 (%) | Description: Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
| Importance: 89 (%) | Description: Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
| Importance: 89 (%) | Description: Performing for or Working Directly with the Public: Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
| Importance: 87 (%) | Description: Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
| Importance: 86 (%) | Description: Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
| Importance: 85 (%) | Description: Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
| Importance: 84 (%) | Description: Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. |
| Importance: 84 (%) | Description: Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
| Importance: 81 (%) | Description: Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
| Importance: 79 (%) | Description: Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |
| Importance: 79 (%) | Description: Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
| Importance: 78 (%) | Description: Performing General Physical Activities: Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. |
| Importance: 78 (%) | Description: Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. |
| Importance: 77 (%) | Description: Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. |
| Importance: 76 (%) | Description: Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills. |
| Importance: 73 (%) | Description: Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. |
| Importance: 71 (%) | Description: Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
| Importance: 69 (%) | Description: Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics. |
| Importance: 68 (%) | Description: Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
| Importance: 67 (%) | Description: Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them. |
Specific Work Activities
| Important Specific Work Activities
How can you begin to build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. Specific Work Activities appear below: |
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| Administer basic health care or medical treatments. | |
| Administer blood or other fluids intravenously. | |
| Administer intravenous medications. | |
| Administer non-intravenous medications. | |
| Analyze test data or images to inform diagnosis or treatment. | |
| Assess patient work, living, or social environments. | |
| Assist healthcare practitioners during examinations or treatments. | |
| Check physical condition of people or animals. | |
| Collaborate with healthcare professionals to plan or provide treatment. | |
| Collect biological specimens from patients. | |
| Conduct health or safety training programs. | |
| Confer with family members to discuss client treatment plans or progress. | |
| Confer with other professionals to plan patient care. | |
| Develop medical treatment plans. | |
| Establish nursing policies or standards. | |
| Evaluate patient functioning, capabilities, or health. | |
| Examine condition of property or products. | |
| Examine medical instruments or equipment to ensure proper operation. | |
| Interact with patients to build rapport or provide emotional support. | |
| Maintain medical equipment or instruments. | |
| Maintain medical or professional knowledge. | |
| Monitor nutrition related activities of individuals or groups. | |
| Monitor patient conditions during treatments, procedures, or activities. | |
| Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments. | |
| Operate diagnostic imaging equipment. | |
| Operate diagnostic or therapeutic medical instruments or equipment. | |
| Prepare medical supplies or equipment for use. | |
| Provide basic health care services. | |
| Record patient medical histories. | |
| Supervise patient care personnel. | |
| Test patient heart or lung functioning. | |
| Train medical providers. | |
| Treat medical emergencies. | |
Knowledge Required
| Knowledge Required (in order of importance)
For the Top 5 most important - How can you build experience and skill doing these? This will help now, to begin preparing for this type of occupation. |
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| Importance: 93 (%) | Description: Medicine and Dentistry: Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures. |
| Importance: 83 (%) | Description: Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
| Importance: 81 (%) | Description: Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. |
| Importance: 81 (%) | Description: English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar. |
| Importance: 76 (%) | Description: Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment. |
| Importance: 74 (%) | Description: Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
| Importance: 73 (%) | Description: Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance. |
| Importance: 73 (%) | Description: Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Chemistry: Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods. |
| Importance: 62 (%) | Description: Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. |
Essential Skills
| Essential Skills (in order of importance)
These are the foundational skills most central to success in this occupation. For the Top 5 most important, how can you begin building experience and confidence using these skills now? |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 68 (%) | Description: Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
| Importance: 56 (%) | Description: Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
Transferable Skills
| Transferable Skills (in order of importance)
These are skills that can transfer across occupations and industries. For the Top 5 most important, how can you strengthen these skills now so they support both this career and future career flexibility? |
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| Importance (%) | Description |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
| Importance: 66 (%) | Description: Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
| Importance: 64 (%) | Description: Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
| Importance: 56 (%) | Description: Operations Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
| Importance: 54 (%) | Description: Instructing: Teaching others how to do something. |
| Importance: 54 (%) | Description: Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. |
| Importance: 52 (%) | Description: Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. |
Day-in-the-Life Summaries
| Day-in-the-Life Summaries These summaries show the main types of activities you are likely to perform on a regular basis in this occupation. How can you imagine your typical workday — using these examples to see if this type of work fits you? |
| Activity: Administer basic health care or medical treatments. |
| Activity: Administer diagnostic tests to assess patient health. |
| Activity: Administer emergency medical treatment. |
| Activity: Analyze health or medical data. |
| Activity: Assess living, work, or social needs or status of individuals or communities. |
| Activity: Assist healthcare practitioners during medical procedures. |
| Activity: Collect environmental or biological samples. |
| Activity: Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care. |
| Activity: Develop operational or technical procedures or standards. |
| Activity: Develop patient or client care or treatment plans. |
| Activity: Evaluate patient or client condition or treatment options. |
| Activity: Examine people or animals to assess health conditions or physical characteristics. |
| Activity: Explain medical information to patients or family members. |
| Activity: Inspect characteristics or conditions of materials or products. |
| Activity: Inspect commercial, industrial, or production systems or equipment. |
| Activity: Maintain current knowledge in area of expertise. |
| Activity: Maintain health or medical records. |
| Activity: Maintain medical equipment or instruments. |
| Activity: Monitor health conditions of humans or animals. |
| Activity: Operate medical equipment. |
| Activity: Prepare medical equipment or work areas for use. |
| Activity: Provide support or encouragement to others. |
| Activity: Supervise personnel activities. |
| Activity: Train others on health or medical topics. |
Software Skills
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Software Skills These are examples of software tools commonly used in this occupation, organized from most to least important for your career preparation. How can you start learning or practicing the highest-priority tools so that you feel confident using them on the job? |
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Preparation Required
| Preparation Required - How much preparation is needed to obtain this type of job? |
| Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed |
| A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified. |
| Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not. |
| Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training. |
| Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include real estate brokers, sales managers, database administrators, graphic designers, conservation scientists, art directors, and cost estimators. |
Education Required
| Education Required - by frequency of educational attainment This shows you details about the level of education most commonly held by workers in this occupation. How can you begin planning the educational pathway that will prepare you best for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Education |
| Frequency of Attainment: 50.0 (%) | Level of Education: Bachelor's Degree |
| Frequency of Attainment: 35.7 (%) | Level of Education: Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree |
| Frequency of Attainment: 10.7 (%) | Level of Education: Master's Degree |
| Frequency of Attainment: 3.6 (%) | Level of Education: Post-Master's Certificate |
Training and Experience Required
| Training and Experience Required - by frequency of training and work experience attainment This section shows you how often different types of training and work experience are required for this occupation. How can you start gaining the kinds of experience and training that are most common for this type of work? |
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| Frequency of Attainment (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience |
| Frequency of Attainment: 32.1 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: None |
| Frequency of Attainment: 21.4 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year |
| Frequency of Attainment: 21.4 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 14.3 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years |
| Frequency of Attainment: 3.6 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months |
| Frequency of Attainment: 3.6 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months |
| Frequency of Attainment: 3.6 (%) | Level of Training and Work Experience: Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years |
Local Salary Information
Select a State (scroll and Select) :
Please select a State to see State and National Salaries
Certifications
| Certifications These are examples of certifications that may be important for this occupation. How can you begin exploring which certifications fit your goals and what steps you would need to take to earn them? |
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Acute/Critical Care Knowledge Professional (Adult)
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Adult Tele-ICU Acute/Critical Care Nursing Certification
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Cardiac Medicine (Adult)
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Cardiac Surgery (Adult)
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Certified in Executive Nursing Practice
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Certified Radiology Nurse
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Clinical Medical Assistant
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Critical Care Registered Nurse (Pediatric)
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EKG Technician
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Emergency Pediatric Care
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Pain Management Nursing Certification
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Phlebotomy Technician
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Tactical Combat Casualty Care
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Professional Associations
| Professional Associations These associations connect people who work in this occupation or related fields. How can you start using these associations to learn more, build your network, or find mentoring opportunities? |
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American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
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Job Listings
| Job Listings and Similar Occupational Titles - scroll and click to identify common requirements, keywords, and skills in current job listings |
Related Careers to Consider
Step 4 of 4: Career-Specific Resources
This section contains detailed external resources appropriate to "Critical Care Nurses". Explore these resources to start learning more. Links are constantly updated, so bookmark this page.
Videos
Here is a listing of videos related to this career. A great way to get a quick overview of the occupation.
Resumes
Here are resources that allow you to see example resumes for this occupation. It may be helpful to see examples from others who have this type of experience.
Job Description
Here are resources that provide job descriptions, which are vital for resume and interview preparation.
Interviews
There are many great resources that can help guide you through the interview process. These links provide help in preparing and performing an effective interview, specific to this occupation.
Step-by-Step
Here are links to help guide you, step-by-step, to become a(n): Critical Care Nurses
LinkedIn®
Here are links to various posts and groups from LinkedIn ® that relate to this occupation. Great way to start building professional contacts in the field that might be most appropriate for you.
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