Melanie Im not sure why no one replied to your thread. My name is Seth and I just graduated from a BSN program in North Carolina. I had a preceptorship in ICU just recently before graduation. This is definitely where I need to be working! I think you are going to love it. I have to tell you that I just got done interviewing last week with the ICU Nurse Manager and the work I did while interning there has landed me the job. You are right about the constant monitoring, but the beauty of this is that most if not all patients are hooked up to teimetry machines that record vital signs, output, temperature etc all day and night. When you want to record or check, you simply print out their info and write it down. I had several patients that required my undivided attention. This job makes for a very fast shift, before you know it the shift is over. During my interview , I was asked things like 1 Why do you want to work in the ICU? 2 What are your strengths and weaknesses? 3 Define Coworker 4 Detail a situation in which you went above and beyond the call of duty I think that you will like the ICU, feel free to PM me if you have furthur questions, striking avatar, is that you?