Has anybody else noticed this, or is it just me? The ICU nurses seem a TON more laid back, and the Med-Surg nurses seem very ancy (aka anal). I know not every nurse in these areas is not like this, but in general, this is what I have noticed. For example, in nursing school I always felt like the Med-Surg nurses were very hawk-like and made sure I was doing everything by the book. But when I got to the ICU, I literally had nurse after nurse say things like "well, you do the best that you can do, and that's all you can do." And then they would let me go do procedures/give meds to the patients! This strikes me as odd because in an area such as ICU, I would think they would be very anal and hawk-like, and in med-surg they would be a lot more lax. Maybe this is just my experience....