New grad. Unsure of unit I got hired onto

[Nursekate89]

So to keep a long story short I'm a fairly new grad maybe 3 or 4 mo post grad and I got hired onto a stepdown icu floor immediately. Not knowing the sd icu floor I am working on is combining and becoming an actual icu, which is amazing since I didn't expect that and I really like critical care (from what I know of it now) it didn't come into full effect and won't officially until summer but I'm just wondering if it's for me, I'm not sure what kind of nursing I like still, and am still new to nursing in general obviously but I'm just feeling like from what I hear That most patients in icus are not very interactive. And while that's all fine, I just really felt the need to get into nursing because I care about others and interacting with patients is a big part of that. I'm still figuring things out and am really interested in critical care but don't know if I Love the idea of not interacting with my patients. I realize that's not always the case with icu patients but most of the time, from what I'm hearing it is. I still have a bit of time to figure things out but I just wanted to maybe get some opinions/advice on what I should do. I've heard just stick it out 6 mo and see how I feel... but I don't know.

Thanks!

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

Many ICU pts are interactive, especially given the push for less sedation and earlier extubation. Plus the pts have families. And then since we have fewer pts, we have time for deeper interactions than we would if we had 7 pts.

[jennylee321]

Yeah none of my patients can talk (babies), but you need great communication skills because you are also caring for their families.