New Grad Cardiac ICU RN wanting advice from seasoned ICU nurses!

[MoJo-Jo-Jo]

Hello! I’m a new graduate RN that was just hired into a new grad program in a Cardiac ICU in a level 2 trauma center hospital. Prior to being hired, I was all set to start my online BSN program full time. School starts next week and my new grad position starts a month later. My question to you ICU nurses is if you think I should put off starting my BSN and for how long? Would it be possible to do full time or even part time school or is this a bad idea?  I’ve hear them first year in an ICU can be tough. 
I would appreciate any advice!

[JEE93, BSN, RN]

It went pretty well, luckily they haven't given me really sick patients on my own yet. I feel "okay" with more stable, straightforward patients. I am in a CCU, so honestly probably easier than CVICU. But, we do get a lot of different types of patients, and sometimes not even cardiac patients just depending on the census of our hospital's other ICUs. Especially now with COVID being so overwhelming, it seems like we're getting such a variety of patients all the time. Whereas, my hospital's CVICU pretty much gets the same type of patients and care is pretty standard/structured.

Honestly, no I have not really studied at home. But, as a new grad, my hospital requires us to attend many classes at the hospital when we are first hired. We have had classes on ABGs, EKGs, temp pacers, Basic cardiac arrhythmia, ICU hemodynamics and then we also have a RN skills day and ICU device day. So that was definitely a lot, but I felt they were very helpful. 

I have signed up to do school full time...I'm honestly just ready to get finished with my BSN, so really want to try to do it in 1 year. I hope I can manage!