LA County Critical Care Program for New Grad RNs

[bubups]

Hello. Has anyone been part of the critical care program or gone through the ICU training the LA county provides for their new grad RN hires?

[04RN]

Hello, I am currently in an ICU training program with LAC/USC Medical Center. I can give a little bit of an overview. Basically you have to be flexible, you really won't have any clear outline of when you'll be done with your training. The first part is pretty set, first week or two is orientation to the policies & procedures, human resources stuff. Then another 2-3 of nursing training, classroom type training with one day in lab- basically you do a medical simulation, show that you are safe with med administration. After passing that then it's a week or two of inservices at the hospital. Different nurses will come speak on different topics, you also do some hands on stuff. They are trying to set you up for success. All of this training is basically Monday through Friday 8 hours. You also get inserviced on the computer charting system. After that you get set up with a preceptor on the med surg floor. Think of it as a waiting room, you complete your preceptorship then you're just waiting for when your Manager calls you up. It all has to link up with when the Programs start.

[bubups]

On 6/20/2019 at 1:31 AM, 04RN said:

Hello, I am currently in an ICU training program with LAC/USC Medical Center. I can give a little bit of an overview. Basically you have to be flexible, you really won't have any clear outline of when you'll be done with your training. The first part is pretty set, first week or two is orientation to the policies & procedures, human resources stuff. Then another 2-3 of nursing training, classroom type training with one day in lab- basically you do a medical simulation, show that you are safe with med administration. After passing that then it's a week or two of inservices at the hospital. Different nurses will come speak on different topics, you also do some hands on stuff. They are trying to set you up for success. All of this training is basically Monday through Friday 8 hours. You also get inserviced on the computer charting system. After that you get set up with a preceptor on the med surg floor. Think of it as a waiting room, you complete your preceptorship then you're just waiting for when your Manager calls you up. It all has to link up with when the Programs start.

Thank you so much for replying! I have one last question if you don't mind answering-- Do you feel prepared with the training to provide?