Nineline

I figured as much, thanks for the reply.

Before I begin, I have read the other thread with a similar subject, posting this new one to see if I can get some more visibility. I am currently in my second to last semester of my BSN program and am currently on track to land a great job in the CVICU of a great teaching hospital. My question is this. My undergraduate coursework consisted solely of biology with pretty much zero chemistry. Should I expect to take some chemistry courses while I'm working as a nurse (probably after my residency)? I feel like I would be lacking behind other students who have that chemistry foundation. Obviously like every new nurse I'm eager to start putting in long hours on the floor to pay off debt and actually get ahead for the first time in my life. Any advice would be appreciated.

I'm in a similar boat myself. I haven't graduated from nursing school yet but my undergrad coursework has consisted of not a single chemistry class. Should I expect to take some chemistry once I'm a nurse working in an ICU? I would expect that more would be better but that would be time spent working towards paying off debt and hopefully saving up for grad school. Any advice would be appreciated.

I appreciate you getting back to me, maybe it's just more the place but in my ER the nurses are very disgruntled. You are right, 3 mos is not very much experience and I don't wish to sound like I know everything there is to know. Are you suggesting that I ride it out, even though the possibility exists that I will be stuck working here as a nurse? I would like to avoid that very much. The alternative is that I piss off a couple of people and work somewhere I don't like as much as a tech but will enjoy a lot more as a nurse. Maybe it's that both sound unappealing so I'm having a hard time making up my mind.

I've been employed with an Emergency Department here in my city for about 3 mos. I like it a lot as a tech, but some of the stuff I see the nurses doing scares me. I'd rather not get into details, but I think the ICU would be more my pace. Working as a tech for this ED I am all but guaranteed a job when I graduate because they love me, I just don't think the ED is for me. I have a year left before I graduate, would anyone have any advice for me? I've read new grad ICU positions are hard to come by and I can understand why, would it be beneficial to transfer as a tech to an ICU? How does one go about doing that without pissing off my current manager (who btw also loves me).