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Administered blood and blood product transfusions or intravenous infusions, monitoring patients for adverse reactions; Assessed the impact of illnesses or injuries on patients' health, function, growth, development, nutrition, sleep, rest, quality of life, or family, social and educational relationships. Assessed the needs of patients' family members or caregivers; Assessed urgent and emergent health conditions using both physiologically and technologically derived data; assisted patients in organizing their health care system activities; collaborated with members of multidisciplinary health care teams to plan, manage, or assess patient treatments; documented data related to patients' care including assessment results, interventions, medications, patient responses, or treatment changes; interpreted information obtained from electrocardiograms (EKGs) or radiographs (x-rays); managed patients' pain relief by providing pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions, monitored patients' responses, and changing care plans accordingly; obtained specimens or samples for laboratory work; participated in the development of practice protocols; performed administrative duties that facilitate admission, transfer, or discharge of patients; read current literature, talked with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations to keep abreast of developments in acute care; set up, operated, or monitor invasive equipment and devices such as colostomy or tracheotomy equipment, catheters, gastrointestinal tubes, and central lines. Treated wounds or superficial lacerations; Analyzed the indications, contraindications, risk complications, and cost-benefit tradeoffs of therapeutic interventions; Distinguished between normal and abnormal developmental and age-related physiological and behavioral changes in acute and chronic illness; Referred patients for specialty consultations or treatments.