LBauer007

I work in a busy Neuro/SICU unit and the RN always transports their patient to Ct, MRI, Angio ect., once I had 9 pumps running with Q 15 min V/S and Neuro checks. The charge nurse takes over for our other patient while we are away and a Nurse attended and RT if patient is on the vent help get us down there. ive also been in angio with a patient for over 3 hours before because there is only one RN and she has to assist with the procedure. it has worked well so far but there are those days after my 3rd trip to CT that I wish we had a transport team

You are so brave to actually say that SICU nurses are doers, and MICU nurses are thinkers. I wont take anything away from my MICU coleges but, at least were I work The MICU RNs don' think as fast or are as on top of things that happen to the acutely ill Surgical or trauma patient. We have a neuro surgeon who refuses to have his patients on the MICU unit because he doesn't have the same confidence in them as he does us. The MICU nurses often float to the SICU and feel that they are over worked or that we are dumping on them they don't realize that this is what we do every day. MICU nurses are great at what they do. But I will take a gunshot wound to the head any day over a MI or CHf patient anyday of the week.