Do I transfer?

You'll learn a lot in any ICU, but you'll have the most generalized knowledge base from MICU, where you're managing ten million chronic conditions on top of ICU level problems. I think MICU would help the most with NP school, especially since you have previous cards and emergency/trauma experience.

You'll learn a lot in any ICU, but you'll have the most generalized knowledge base from MICU, where you're managing ten million chronic conditions on top of ICU level problems. I think MICU would help the most with NP school, especially since you have previous cards and emergency/trauma experience.

I was thinking the same thing myself. I also think, and I may be wrong, it would be better preparation to work in a SICU, etc than just jumping into one of those units. There is also a critical care transport position I'm thinking about.

Do it!!!!! You have more than enough experience from the CVT stepdown arena and the ED arena to transition well into The Units. I have a feeling that you will do well because A) You are interested in the Critical Care world B) You have a game plan and a goal C) You are hungry to learn more.

I work in a Cardiac/Transplant ICU in a Top 10 hospital and am very biased but I would say try to get any Cardiac Surgery ICU. Especial if you are planning to go the Acute Care NP route because you will learn SOOOOO much in a very short amount of time. The sickest patient that I have ever taken was a Heart Transplant who just did not do well after surgery and was on VA ECMO, Right sided Tandem for a profoundly hypokinetic right heart, IABP, CVVH, Nitric, Swanned, Pressored up, vented and the most intense of it all tube feeds .

Whatever you decide to do, going into any of The Units will be a great step to achieving the goals that you have listed above.

Do it!!!!! You have more than enough experience from the CVT stepdown arena and the ED arena to transition well into The Units. I have a feeling that you will do well because A) You are interested in the Critical Care world B) You have a game plan and a goal C) You are hungry to learn more.

I work in a Cardiac/Transplant ICU in a Top 10 hospital and am very biased but I would say try to get any Cardiac Surgery ICU. Especial if you are planning to go the Acute Care NP route because you will learn SOOOOO much in a very short amount of time. The sickest patient that I have ever taken was a Heart Transplant who just did not do well after surgery and was on VA ECMO, Right sided Tandem for a profoundly hypokinetic right heart, IABP, CVVH, Nitric, Swanned, Pressored up, vented and the most intense of it all tube feeds .

Whatever you decide to do, going into any of The Units will be a great step to achieving the goals that you have listed above.

Thank you. I have applied. Just waiting now.

I have an interview at an SICU of a 1,000 bed hospital. I'm a bit nervous d/t the acuity of the patients. Heart transplants, multiple traumas, etc.

Good luck!! :)

I need it. These are complex cases. I'd feel more comfortable in the MICU, but I will just have to work harder to succeed.