(possibly silly) Question from a MICU RN

[2ndChance]

Hello, all.

I am an RN in a MICU right now. I would like to work there for about a year and then possibly switch to a CCU or CVICU. There is a brand new cardiac hospital in my city that is all the rage, and with hopes of going to CRNA school one day, I would love the experience.

My question is this: I was looking at the openings at this hospital and they have both a CCU and a CVICU. Can any of you tell me what kind of pts I might see in each? I was wondering what the differences would be. I noted that it seemed they were more willing to take newer nurses into the CCU, but I am not sure if that was related to anything.

Thanks a lot!

[nurseabc123]

Hello, all.

I am an RN in a MICU right now. I would like to work there for about a year and then possibly switch to a CCU or CVICU. There is a brand new cardiac hospital in my city that is all the rage, and with hopes of going to CRNA school one day, I would love the experience.

My question is this: I was looking at the openings at this hospital and they have both a CCU and a CVICU. Can any of you tell me what kind of pts I might see in each? I was wondering what the differences would be. I noted that it seemed they were more willing to take newer nurses into the CCU, but I am not sure if that was related to anything.

Thanks a lot!

CVICU - open hearts - post CABG, valve repairs, surgical patients.. overflow from other icus..

CCU - MI, unstable angina, afib w/ rvr, symptomatic brady, some post cath lab patients, and overflow pts from other icus

[CardioTrans, BSN, RN]

We have both CCU and CVICU in my hospital. The CVICU takes the immediate post op patients that were listed in the above post. They dont take overflow from other ICUs however. This may just be ours. But their patients only stay in CV for

Once the patient is extubated or fails to extubate they send the pt to CCU. We also directly adm all the above mentioned into our CCU, plus overflow from all other ICUs. We also have CHF, LVADs, work ups for heart transplants etc.

[banditrn]

I worked ICU for years - ours was a smaller hospital with only 12 ICU beds, so we got a little of everything.

I always preferred the cardiac or pulmonary patients.