Our ADON says that ICU is boring... Is it true.

BrookeeLou_RN · Feb 14, 2011

Hey! I wonder if this ADON is the same one on the post about the ADON trying to "Guilt" the new grads into staying because she is training them and not leaving because her place seems to be a zoo?????

Zookeeper3 · Feb 14, 2011

I don't know about the rest of you but we're wide open. I had a sick cardiogenic shock on an IABP titrating dopamine, dobutamine and the pump... with a fresh IABP admit from the cath lab... luckily stable, inserted for chest pain prior to cabg in the next 3 days.

We're hopping, and having two pumps is solid proof, that the ICU is NOT always boring. Now if you're in a low level hospital with no trauma and cardiac intervention... than sure your turn, suctions and long termers on levophed get old. Not where I work. Not for a minute.

Our other admit for the night was a trauma having fallen off the roof with many visceral and ortho injuries that was a mess. We get heads with drains, cardiac, MVA's and you name it with your frequent DKA's all in one.

I'd love to be bored right now.

silentRN · Feb 14, 2011

I pass all my 2200 meds and 0600 meds all at 1930 , and over-sedate my patients so I can sleep on the couch, just to turn them once at 0700 to make them look pretty for day shift.

NamasteNurse, BSN, RN · Feb 14, 2011

it's her opinion.

Up2nogood RN, RN · Feb 14, 2011

Wow, just wow...maybe it was boring. To her.

Maybe she really is from one of those reality shows and wants to be a nurse for a week.

....or maybe she is undercover with the FBI.

Or she could have just escaped from your local prison.

Or....maybe she is the new kid on the block trying to fit in.

My advice is to cut her some slack, for whatever reason she chose LTC, it doesn't matter as long as she does an honest job managing.

Purple_Scrubs, BSN, RN · Feb 14, 2011

I think some are jumping to conclusions. Perhaps she meant she found the lack of interpersonal relationships with patients boring. I preferred it that way b/c I didn't especially want to talk to pts, lol, and I preferred them sedated and intubated. ;-) Some nurses do like to bond with people and many find the highly technical aspect boring. Now I'm just specualting. If you really want to know, ask her.

This was my thought. My second thought, was well, maybe her former ICU really WAS boring. Not all hospitals have the same types of ICUs or ICU patients. At any rate, who are we to judge?

I will say it was probably not good judgment on her point to make such a statement, because as this thread has proven, she WILL be judged for it.

Otessa, BSN, RN · Feb 14, 2011

I currently work in LTC and we have a new ADON. She has been a nurse for under 5 years and have experience in ICU and telementry. She sent us an email stating that she decided to work as an ADON in LTC because she found ICU boring. I was a little shocked. I worked as tech in ICU and the nurses were working their butts off ! I wonder if she will get bored with LTC being a ADON. Its a relatively small nursing home ( 80 beds, 40 residents are skilled nursing). What are your thoughts ?

No, never worked in a boring ICU in my 19 years as an RN.