CCU vs. CVICU Drips

[longhorn3333]

I am a graduate nurse and have been offered two positions at a large teaching hospital. One in a surgical CVICU (it is not the recovery, but rather takes the patients that are not doing well enough to go to step down or the floor), and another in the CCU/ICU dealing with MIs, heart failure, cardiogenic shock, cardiomyopothies (they do the whole hypothermia treatment post MI thing and also CVVH). I was wondering where I would see more drips and hemodynamic monitoring in the long run. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks.

[jmgrn65, RN]

probably the ccu/icu

[nursejill155]

ICU/CCU it sounds like...if you are not taking the CABG's fresh post op (if you were you would see a lot of gtts there and definately hemodynamic monitoring, most CT surgery pts will have a swan) but otherwise I would choose the ICU/CCU, if that is the stuff you are looking for.