Opinions of working in iccu?

ICCU should be a great experience! Let us know how it goes!

i say good luck to you and learn all that you can. personally, i enjoy working with our techs/nurse assistants who want to learn, are motivated and excited about what they are doing. you will probably find out very quickly that there are two types of nurses- nurses who love to teach other people and nurses who don't. i would suggest picking the brains as you said of those who enjoy teaching and be helpful and a good coworker to those who don't enjoy teaching, but don't get your feelings hurt if they are not that helpful to you. sounds like a good opportunity- good luck and learn lots!

When I was a CNA, I looooooved floating to ICU! The ICU nurses at my hospital are just amazing...they're always willing to let me watch bedside proceedures and answer silly questions about the drips they're running and how they make decisions in a rapid response or code situation. Even though I'm not working as a CNA anymore, I still spend most of my "free" time at work in the ICU, pestering my nurse friends.

Some CNAs didn't like being floated to the ICU since the nurses there are pretty autonomous...they don't get a tech very often (well, they qualify for one or two every shift but when the floors are short the ICU CNA always gets pulled first), so they're used to doing their own FSBS and daily care. The CNAs that don't like going complain of spending all their time stocking IV carts and running lab/blood. Sure, that's a part of it, but if you let the nurses know in my ICU that you're interested in seeing procedures and helping them, they will come get you when things are going on.

To have a good experience in my ICU working as a CNA, you have to be proactive and forward and let the nurses know you want to help them. I love my ICU.

Congrats on the new job, I hope you love it!