MarieBF

It’s hard to be a new grad in ICU. I’m surprised they would hire a new grad because of that. There is not a lot of grace in the ICU because your patients are fragile. If you blank while talking to doctors and are stressed this late in orientation I would strongly consider transferring to a regular floor for a while. This is not the time to let hour pride in the way, the life of your patients literally rests on you. They are at their most vulnerable. It’s a rare rare new grad who can breeze into it.

Trying to navigate through your post, it seems more that you don’t want to do the prerequisites required and just want a school that will give you just a RN. That’s not how it works. Associates degrees and bachelors degrees have requirements they have to meet. It’s not meant to block you, it’s meant to keep their accreditation and keep their program respectable. As others mentioned if you want a hospital setting you’re likely stuck in a nursing home for a year as well. What are your goals for retirement? If you do want to get into a hospital you’re also looking at a mandatory BSN depending on how long you want to be there. Why? Because studies over 30 years have shown BSN nurses have better patient outcomes. It’s been demonstrated many times over in different areas. It’s just a fact at this point (ADN to BSN to MSN here don’t shoot the messenger)

Her medical background (however limited it may be) doesn’t matter. There’s plenty of RNs who don’t understand science or how to critically think and I’m sure this thread will prove me right. Recently there was a fb viral post by an OR nurse who claimed surgical masks don’t protect against viral illness and attempted to educate the public why people in the OR wear them. She must have never stepped out of the OR and actually cared for a patient with influenza because she’d know that you wear regular surgical masks for droplet precautions. And of course numerous people shared this post as proof they don’t need to mask because it came from a nurse. MAs have even less education so don’t count on that to help you.

Why do they need a crash course? Maybe in your states and facilities it’s different, but in my state and the surrounding states nurses have to have a minimum of two years ICU experience in order to be admitted into CRNA school, there are CRNAS is in my state that practice on their own so they are the ones running the drips in the OR

I’ve asked this too. My facility shut down elective procedures and most clinic appointments and are giving OR RNs and preop crash courses. To me it makes more sense to ask a family practice NP to staff the ICU because they have advanced pathophys and advanced pharm. I have honestly wondered what the death toll is from people being treated by medical professionals treating outside their specialty

How could one possibly respect research and evidence especially in healthcare if you don’t believe in vaccinations

Find a different career. Patients are entitled to practitioners who are scientifically literate and you are obviously not. What other kind of pseudoscience would you promote?