biscuit_007

Well I have moved. I now work in a 6 bed picu in temple texas. We have 3 intensivists a great staff and loads of patients. We are affiliated with texas A&M medical school. GO AGGIES!

I love this idea. I would have never thought of it myself since i rarely deal with violent patients in PICU but use any and all resources available to you and you will be fine.

I work in a PICU in Lafayette Louisiana. We are small, like 6 beds, but we can only take 4 patients most days due to staffing. We are very understaffed, I am the only night shift nurse and i do 5 12 hour shifts a week. I get pull help every night and that can reange from great help to no help. We mostly do neuro since our only PICU doc is a neurosurgeon and I hate neuro. All this being said I love my job and I will never work anywhere but PICU again. I only have 2 more months at this job as i have decided to take a job in a bigger PICU in Temple Texas and I cannot wait to start there.

A place where i used to work did offer a discount of sorts to its employees. When you needed service at the hospital and you insurance paid 80 percent, if you had insurance through the hospital, they would forgive the other 20 percent. After you paid the deductable.

Any PICU nurses out here? Where do you work? How is your staffing? How many RN openings are on your unit? How do you like where you work? Let's try to get a dialogue going about PICU issues!:roll

amen!!!! I work in a PICU and nobody wants to float here when we get busy! I float at times to NICU, PEDS, or NURSERY but none of them float here unless their jod is in jeopardy. And then, I get to hear them complain all night. But i start in a new job soon where the only place i have to float is other ICU's :)

I have always been a nurse. When i was a little boy my father was in nursing school and i learned to read sitting on his lap while he would read out loud his textbooks. The first book i read on my own was Grey's Anatomy. Everyone knew i was going to be a nurse when I grew up. Everyone but me it seems! I spent my time trying to be other things but I always end up back in nursing school. My uncle challenged me years ago, prior to his untimely death, by telling me I was to dumb to be a nurse. I still wish he would have live to see me graduate. I guess you can say my Father and his brother were all the influence i needed and I must say that I owe the a great debt of gratitude because as crappy as it can be at times I love this Job!

I am a PICU nurse that happens to enjoy taking care if adult ICU patients every once in a while. I am changing jobs, hospitals, and even states to go to a jobs that encourages cross training. I feel that the more Jobs i become competant at the more marketable i will be in the event that i ever NEED to go find another job.

Believe it or not we got some pretty good stuff this year, as compared to most years anyway. We got a cheap insulated lunch bag that is destined to fall apart quickly. While we all thought that was it the hospital surprised us by giving us a really attractive little duffle bag that will be perfect for workout clothes. Not much but better than the 3x t-shirts everyone got last year

Recently at my FORMER job the administration implemented "scripts". It went over like a lead balloon. As employees were leaving the inservise you could clearly hear the comments and grumblings among people. Our place even went one step furthur and decided if a visiter ever asked for directions we were to drop what we were doing and not only give them directions but escort them to their destination. Well needless to say i have never heard of one single nurse ever leaving their floor to escort so poor lost soul to x ray or lab. The ironic thing is at this same inservice we were told that due to the nursing shortage that we were to expect to take a larger patient load on a daily basis.