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46NX Emergency/Trauma Nurse

Current service use not established

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Overview

Emergency and Trauma Nurses make rapid medical decisions and treat patients during medical crises. They provide swift, comprehensive care in stressful environments on bases around the world.

Core Skills

  • Patient advocacy through family education
  • Cross-functional collaboration to improve patient care
  • Nursing policy and program recommendations

Civilian Career Paths

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Acute Care Nurses

Professional nursing care, patient and family education, and collaboration to improve care delivery transfer directly to acute care nursing.

How to prepare: Compare your existing nursing education, license, credentials, and clinical experience with the intended state nursing board's requirements and an acute care employer's unit expectations. Practice requires a nursing license issued by the state in which you work; state requirements vary.

What the civilian work involves
  • Discuss illnesses and treatments with patients and family members.
  • Assess urgent and emergent health conditions, using both physiologically and technologically derived data.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software

Notes & Sources

  • The verified duty source covers the clinical nurse family; it does not establish individual emergency, trauma, critical care, neonatal, or obstetrical experience.
Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: CLINICAL NURSE (46NX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "CLINICAL NURSE"; normalized cached text lines 8756-8779; family-level section (46N4, 46N3, 46N1)

    Supports: Patient advocacy through family education, Cross-functional collaboration to improve patient care, Nursing policy and program recommendations, Acute Care Nurses (O*NET 29-1141.01)

  2. O*NET: Acute Care Nurses

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Acute Care Nurses (O*NET 29-1141.01)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Registered Nurses

    [3] What They Do; Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations; Advancement; retrieved 23 September 2026

    Supports: Acute Care Nurses (O*NET 29-1141.01)

Defense contractor jobs for 46NX

Descriptions may be summarized for clarity. Verify all information with your branch career counselor or official military documentation before making career decisions.

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