ELKnurse

As a new nurse, it's disheartening for me to see my newly specialized skills under-utilized by my employer. I work in a CCU in a community hospital, however I used to work in a large teaching hospital SICU. From my experience in nursing, CCU/ICU nurses are continually floated throughout facilites to supply staffing to both the units and the floors. Many of my colleagues have moaned and groaned to management. My position is, if the floor nurses can't float to the units because they lack the training, then how can it be safe to float critical care nurses to the floors where they may not have the skills needed to care for those patients?