Nursing Certificate Programs - Ohio

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Critical Care Nurse

Critical care nurses look after patients suffering from serious, acute, and complex ailments or injuries. They specialize in dealing with patients who need to be closely monitored. Critical care nurses are also trained to adhere to medications or therapies that have complex protocols. In addition, they... see more need to have expertise in handling sophisticated medical equipment. Critical care nurses work in post operative, intensive care, and other high dependency units in hospitals. They often specialize in fields like adult intensive care, pediatric intensive care, or neonatal intensive care because treatment modes differ for patients of different age groups.

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Cardiovascular Technician

Cardiovascular technologists and technicians assist physicians in diagnosing and treating cardiac (heart) and peripheral vascular (blood vessel) ailments. Cardiovascular technologists may specialize in three areas of practiceinvasive cardiology, echocardiography, and vascular technology. Cardiovascular... see more technicians who specialize in electrocardiograms (EKGs), stress testing, and Holter monitors are known as cardiographic, or EKG technicians. Cardiovascular technologists specializing in invasive procedures are called cardiology technologists. They assist physicians with cardiac catheterization procedures in which a small tube, or catheter, is wound through a patients blood vessel from a spot on the patients leg into the heart. During the procedures, they monitor patients blood pressure and heart rate with EKG equipment and notify the physician if something appears to be wrong. Technologists also may prepare and monitor patients during open-heart surgery and the implantation of pacemakers.