ShelleyRN

Julie, I started in a peds intermediate ICU as a new grad and I loved it. I never had an problems at all being a new grad. I knew all through nursing school and even before then that this was all I ever wanted to do. It's been 6 years and I've never looked back. I now work in a pediatric cardiac ICU and whole organ transplant ICU. Both units I've worked on hire new grads, and the nursing shortage has defintiely hit peds just as hard as everywhere else.

We too have begun having the staff RNs learn CRRT. I work in a Pediatric cardiac ICU. We have used it only once in the past two years that I can even think of. We recently had our one case, and although everyone was leary at first since we hadn't done it since the class, the child was safely on it for 3 days without any mishaps. We basically retrained at shift change the RN ocming on. We did staff it as a bedside RN and a CRRT RN since the patient was so critically ill. Shelley