Critical Care Nurse is a bimonthly peer-reviewed nursing journal covering research about bedside care of critically and acutely ill patients and critical and acute care nursing practice.

It is published by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

The journal was established in 1981 with C. Gozensky and Penny Vaughn as its founding editors-in-chief.

[1] Its current editor-in-chief is Annette Bourgault (University of Central Florida).

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:[2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.707.