LisaCam

it's unsafe because they train them and send them back to their home units. they use them as needed. it takes time to develop critical thinking and experience for becoming an ICU nurse. you can't just train a nurse and think she is going to be independent and use her/him as a float nurse. I don't need advice of kindness from anyone. training and ED nurse or former ICU nurse is way different from training a tele or dou nurse who has no experience in ICU. Plus, they are not creating new positions, they just want to use these nurses as float nurses without having the benefit of float nurses. I just asked a question. I don't need your hate speech

I work in ICU and Our manager is trying to cross train tele or DOU nurses to work in ICU as needed. I think it’s unsafe and create lot of drama since those nurses who are cross trained would not want to go back to their home unit. It’s also not safe for some body who just got trained to go back and forth between ICU and tele or DOU. I think becoming a safe ICU nurse takes time and experience. The management just wants to control nurses without having to create new positions. I just need more arguments. What do you think?