ICU decison making scenarios

Specialties MICU

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Hello,

I have an interview in a few weeks for a Staff Nurse ICU position and from experience I know that there will be questions asked in the interview to assess problem solving and decision making skills, for example "tell me about AF", (which I could answer), "what could cause the ventilator to alarm high pressure?", (which I couldn't really answer), and "what would you do if you saw an ETT balloon at the back of your patient's mouth?", (which I could only answer using common sense).

As you've probably guessed I have no previous ICU nursing experience and was wondering if anyone knows of anywhere to find scenarios or troubleshooting information. Unfortunately I don't have sufficient funds to invest in too many ICU books before I actually get an ICU position.

Any help would be really appreciated.

:nuke:

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma.

There's a great site with a ton of this type information; icufaqs.org

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Thank you. I found this link just after posting my thread.

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

check out this sticky thread found in the ccu forum, busylizzy01

helpful information for the unit

good luck with your interview.:)

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