Run.RN.

As an edit to the second post...I would not recommend ICU if, as you mentioned, interaction and communication are obstacles for you. Your patient may be sedated, but you've got family to deal with, interns to correct (wink, wink) and everyone else in between to work with that has a say in your patient's care. Actually, this applies to all areas of nursing. What about focusing on research or something along those lines...?

Are you asking what a critical care nurse does at the bedside? We take care of unstable patients who require extremely close monitoring, frequent intervention (usually multiple interventions at a time) and various testing -labs, scans, etc.... a lame cop-out to very, very broadly sum up a million things that are going on with any one ICU patient at a time. Look at the ICU-specific forum on this site to learn more. Check out http://www.icufaqs.org. It is a great resource site I used when starting out in the ICU, and maybe will give you some idea of a critical care nurse's responsibilities.

I also had few technical questions... I think I had two, maybe three total, all from the same interviewer. Apparently it didn't matter, since I was accepted earlier this week. Any other thoughts on this? Good luck!

So I have been lurking on this site for a few months now, and finally have decided to throw my two cents in. I interviewed at VCU the second week of October, and was called earlier this week with my acceptance for next fall. (!!) Am also curious if anyone else has heard...?