RN-icu

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  1. Icu Nursing isn't for me help

    Turns out I may just hate being a nurse all together, not ICU specific. I switched to a different department at the end of April. I went to the Women's care department. We do a mixture of mom/babies, peds, and female med/surg patients. This is defin...
  2. Icu Nursing isn't for me help

    Thanks for the responses I'll start looking for ambulatory jobs too. I never thought about that setting. Yes, BSNgrad2010. I would LOVE to do some sort of nurse educator job. I have that set into my job searches, but I rarely ever get any results for...
  3. Icu Nursing isn't for me help

    So here is the list so far. I'm sure I could add to it, but it's getting late and this is all I can think of now. I dislike: Titrating pressors. Actually I like doing it, but I do not feel educated enough. It's not all the time that I have the oppo...
  4. Icu Nursing isn't for me help

    Thanks for all the responses. I work in a 240 bed community hospital on a 22 bed icu/tcu unit. Our patient ratio is 1-4 depending on the acuity. (1:1 is pretty rare for us tho) We do resp failure, renal failure, gi bleeds, overdoses, post-op, and ju...
  5. Icu Nursing isn't for me help

    Looking for advice! I am a relatively new RN-bsn, almost 2 years in, all day shift critical care. I also worked as a cna in the same department during nursing school. So I feel that I have given critical care enough time to know that it's not for me...