PICU Nurses

I'm a nursing student and am hoping to do my preceptorship in the PICU at CHO. I volunteered in the ER prior to entering nursing school and loved the hospital! Coincidentally, I looked at moving to Portland prior to entering nursing school. Perhaps some day...

Take care,
Rob

My name is Don. I work at Arkansas Children's Hospital in a 26 bed PICU. We also have a 31 bed CVICU and an 85 bed NICU. I have worked here for 1.5 years and love it. Being the only hospital for children in the state, we care for all acuity of pts. We have MDs 24 hrs a day and use a very Team-like approach in pt care. Our shifts are three 12 hr shifts per week, with self-scheduling and premium pay for extra shifts worked.

ACH was ranked in the Forbes Top 100 best places to work for in 2007 and 2008. Not many hospitals make the list. I LOVE IT.

I am a student still. I chose the PICU for my capstone class, but unfortunately I didn't get it. I toured the PICU at Children's Mercy Hospital, in Kansas City and found it amazing. I just loved the atmosphere. Someday I hope to post here saying that I am working in a PICU somewhere.

Hey I work on PICU at a childrens hospital in Birmingham, England.

I work on a 20 bedded unit (can go up to 21 beds and in the consultation process of expanding to 28 beds!) We work Long Days, Early's, Late's and nights a mixture of all and we self roster. On each shift we should have a minimum of 25 nurses. At the moment we are also experiencing a quiet time which is very nice! I have worked here for nearly 2 years.
We have a good team of Intensivists and Dr's and work well as a team! We cover anything really majority cardiac patients, we also have a very active retrival team, we do ECLS and the usual...CVVH, Osolaitors, Nitric ect.

Really interesting reading about everyone else! x

Hey Smiler! Long time no see. We need to chat... if I ever get my new computer sorted out.

Our unit is currently slowing down a bit, but it's not really noticeable. There was a rumour that we were going to close beds, but that isn't going to happen for real. Unlike our counterparts in Manitoba we aren't seeing many H1N1 flu cases...yet. Not looking forward to that.