The mission of the journal CRITICAL CARE NURSE is to provide critical care and acute care nurses with accurate, relevant, and useful information concerning the bedside care of critically and acutely ill patients and to keep critical and acute care nurses informed on issues that affect their practice. By reading any issue of CRITICAL CARE NURSE, critical care and acute care nurses should benefit through increased knowledge concerning critical and acute care nursing practice be able to use this knowledge to care for patients and their families in a more effective manner.

《重癥護理護士》雜志的使命是向重癥護理和急癥護理護士提供有關重癥和急癥患者床邊護理的準確、相關和有用的信息，并讓重癥和急癥護理護士隨時了解影響其實踐的問題。通過閱讀危重護理護士的任何問題，危重護理和急癥護理護士應該受益于增加有關危重護理和急癥護理實踐的知識，能夠使用這些知識以更有效的方式照顧病人和他們的家人。