acute care job right out of college

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I was reading about acute and intensive care jobs in some hospitals around where I live, a lot of them require extra training. Is it possible to get the type of acute care setting you need for CRNA school right after you get out of college?

Specializes in SRNA.

I was hired at the Cleveland Clinic and worked in their CTICU right out of school....so it can be done, and it is definately worth your while if your ultimate goal is anesthesia school. I was in orientation for 12 weeks or so and got lots of classroom teaching also there.

Specializes in Anesthesia.

Same here, went to Burn ICU right out of school. All the extra training/education needed was done by the ICU; i.e. ICU fundamentals class (vent, art lines, cvl's, cvvhd, etc), burn specific courses, pediatric ICU fundamentals, trauma care course and the like.

Specializes in Neuro ICU.

I also got a job in an ICU right out of school in a teaching hospital - which I think may be more willing to hire new grads for the ICU. I graduated from a school with a hospital, and they were also hiring new grads for acute/critical care. Other non-teaching facilities were not willing to hire me directly into the ICU without going through a long "internship" and making long commitments to them. Hope this helps!

Specializes in Anesthesia.

Its funny you mention that the teaching hospital ICU are more willing to hire new grads as opposed to community hospital ICU. It has been my experience that the more critical patients are in the teaching hospital ICU's.

Specializes in Neuro ICU.

I absolutely agree that the patients are more critical in teaching hospitals...we get patients flown in from the entire southeast (I'm in Atlanta). I don't know what it is, and I could be absolutely wrong with that assumption :). Going into an ICU, I had a 12 week orientation which consisted of EKG classes, a month long critical care class, neuro classes, and working with a preceptor on the unit. So they definitely gave us new grads a good foundation (I think) and maybe not the sickest pts for the first few weeks after orientation. :)

Its funny you mention that the teaching hospital ICU are more willing to hire new grads as opposed to community hospital ICU. It has been my experience that the more critical patients are in the teaching hospital ICU's.

I am not sure patient acuity has much to do with new grads being hired directly into ICU or not. I think it's a matter of being a larger facility and having more resources available to train new graduates.

Specializes in ICU.
I absolutely agree that the patients are more critical in teaching hospitals...we get patients flown in from the entire southeast (I'm in Atlanta). I don't know what it is, and I could be absolutely wrong with that assumption :). Going into an ICU, I had a 12 week orientation which consisted of EKG classes, a month long critical care class, neuro classes, and working with a preceptor on the unit. So they definitely gave us new grads a good foundation (I think) and maybe not the sickest pts for the first few weeks after orientation. :)

Hmmmmmm... your job sounds incredibly familiar. We may have worked in the same hospital. I'm now in NW Georgia about to transfer to a new Neuro ICU. Can't wait! You wouldn't happen to be at EUH?

Specializes in Neuro ICU.
Hmmmmmm... your job sounds incredibly familiar. We may have worked in the same hospital. I'm now in NW Georgia about to transfer to a new Neuro ICU. Can't wait! You wouldn't happen to be at EUH?

What gave me away?:rolleyes: When did you leave EUH? We just opened a new 20 bed unit in Feb...very family centered care with family "suites" attached to the pt's room. I've just been through my first July of new residents...neurosurg is fine, but it's made me appreciate the neurology docs we had. Where are you transfering to - a new hospital or just a new unit?

Specializes in ICU.
What gave me away?:rolleyes: When did you leave EUH? We just opened a new 20 bed unit in Feb...very family centered care with family "suites" attached to the pt's room. I've just been through my first July of new residents...neurosurg is fine, but it's made me appreciate the neurology docs we had. Where are you transfering to - a new hospital or just a new unit?

Oh dear. I know EXACTLY where you work. When did you start there? I hate to give away my identity. ;)

I'm transferring to a new unit that just opened up and is taking the SAH patients that used to lifeflight into EUH.

Oh, and I left EUH almost 2 years ago. In 2005. We can talk more about the details later... :)

^haha small world,

but many thanks for the info!

Specializes in Neuro ICU.
Oh dear. I know EXACTLY where you work. When did you start there? I hate to give away my identity. ;)

I'm transferring to a new unit that just opened up and is taking the SAH patients that used to lifeflight into EUH.

Oh, and I left EUH almost 2 years ago. In 2005. We can talk more about the details later... :)

How funny is that?? I've been here since since Feb. working nights...can't handle some of the, we'll call them "strong" personalities on the day shift--you probably remember exactly what I'm talking about. :saint:

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