I've been working in an adult SICU/CVICU for a few years, and am going to be moving and switching jobs soon. The more I evaluate my job, the more I realize I need something different, but I'm honestly not quite sure what. There's a few Peds CVICU openings at a hospital in the new city, which peaked my interest.
What do you like/hate/love/find extremely challenging about CV surgery patients? (In adults it's usually 50 y/o executive-types who know some higher-up in the hospital but are crying to their mom when you ask them to get out of bed to a chair for the first time.)
Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.
Aw gee, thanks you guys! Right now I really needed to hear something like that. I'm so glad to work in the same specialty as so many enthusiastic and compassionate people. Welcome to the fold, sicushells!
Hey Janfrn! I just wanted to give you a quick update.
I've been in the peds CVICU for a few months now, and I like it a lot! It's taked some time to get used to how different things are in adults versus peds, but I love my patients (mostly :) ).
Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.
That's great, shells! Our world really is different from adults, not just in the size of our patients but also in the kinds of problems and complications we see. And our alphabet soup is quite different too... HLHS, TOF, RVOTO, DORV, DILV, ALCAPA, MAPCA, DKS, BTS, CoA, RV-PAC... and many more. but it's truly amazing what we can do!
NotReady4PrimeTime, RN
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Aw gee, thanks you guys! Right now I really needed to hear something like that. I'm so glad to work in the same specialty as so many enthusiastic and compassionate people. Welcome to the fold, sicushells!