ICU Nurse Practitioners

[otterpop1989]

Hello,

I am about to start an AGAC-NP program, and I hope to become an ICU NP. I'm trying to get a feel for how NP's who currently work in the ICU setting arrived at their position. Did you work in ICU throughout school? Did you enter one of the few ICU NP fellowships currently available? Any thoughts or comments are welcome, thank you!

[stevengoodman]

I have been working as a critical care np in the ICU for over 2 years. the intensivist also like to work with NPs and they are willing to train us in intubation, central line and arterial line insertion as well as assist in bronchoscopy and chest tube insertion. I had 4 years of experience in the ICU with CCRN & TCRN and 600 hours ICU preceptorship. So I started to work as np in the ICU after graduation. I didn't go to any residency program because I was precepted by awesome intensivists who trained me as residents in the ICU. While I went to the ACNP program, I still worked as an RN in the ICU and I learned how to read CXR, CT, MRI by myself with google assistant. When doing ICU rounds, I gave a report as one of the residents. I also asked the intensivists all of the questions of ICU best practice.

I also took ACNP certification from AACN which is really challenging because it has a lot of critical care questions without research questions. However, if you are CCRN, you can pass the exam.

[R.A.B., NP]

On 10/24/2019 at 3:22 AM, stevengoodman said:

I have been working as a critical care np in the ICU for over 2 years. the intensivist also like to work with NPs and they are willing to train us in intubation, central line and arterial line insertion as well as assist in bronchoscopy and chest tube insertion. I had 4 years of experience in the ICU with CCRN & TCRN and 600 hours ICU preceptorship. So I started to work as np in the ICU after graduation. I didn't go to any residency program because I was precepted by awesome intensivists who trained me as residents in the ICU. While I went to the ACNP program, I still worked as an RN in the ICU and I learned how to read CXR, CT, MRI by myself with google assistant. When doing ICU rounds, I gave a report as one of the residents. I also asked the intensivists all of the questions of ICU best practice.

I also took ACNP certification from AACN which is really challenging because it has a lot of critical care questions without research questions. However, if you are CCRN, you can pass the exam.

I'm an AG-ACNP working in critical care medicine. I had 8 years of RN experience, mostly ICU and IR. My NP program had one dedicated CCM rotation, and I also used my elective to repeat CCM. I was then hired into that ICU when I graduated. I did not do a rotation. New PAs hired in my system get a year of orientation, I was given 5 months. We do all the notes, procedures (intubations, lines, paras/thoras, etc), and night solo coverage.

[guest478081]

Be a good icu nurse and talk to the other np and docs and ask them. If they like you and then need an np they more likely to hire you. If you are good