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I was an ICU nurse for 15 years before going to hospice and then to teaching. When I had to bring my clinical group through an ICU rotation I was scared to death as it had been 7 years since I had been in one, but it took me about 2 hours to become comfortable again, it's amazing what comes rushing back when you are back in the atmosphere. My biggest challenge was the different equipment but, that didn't take long either. ICU nursing is a way of thinking, critical thinking, and once you learn it, you never actually stop using it in your practice. Good Luck to you, I think you will be fine :)

I usually gear my post clinicals towards a particular subject, for example last week in lecture they learned skin assessments, so I pulled the unit protocol and charting on skin assessments and had each student pick a patient to do one on during the shift, in post clinicals each student presented their assessment. I also have them do care mapping on particular disease processes related to the patients they care for and we discuss those in post clinical also.

The patient won't drink the barium sulfate until you do first.