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If your end game is to be a CRNA I say start in the CICU because you can start gaining your critical care experience. I also find it to be easier to move from ICU to ICU than from non-ICU into an ICU because you have most of the training like critical care course, ACLS, etc. and you would already have experience caring for some very sick people.
misha12
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To all CRNAs or SRNAs out there, PLEASE give me your opinion to help me choose my first job.
I have been offered a position in a CICU in a large teaching hospital which has a CTICU that does the open heart post-ops. So, the CICU takes the medical cases, not surgical.
I also have an offer working in a CT stepdown, hopefully progressing up to the CTICU after a year or so on stepdown (year minimum, then need a position to open)
PLEASE offer me some guidance as to which will provide me with the better experience for anesthesia school!! It is appealing to get right into an ICU, but I'm not sure if the CICU will provide good enough experience or not - do you think I would have to transfer to another ICU to gain more experience? I would love to get some help from those who truly know!!!!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!