Quick stepdown to ICU transition

I think it's great that they're giving you orientation shifts. Depending on how hard your area gets hit, you may never actually fill those beds with ICU patients. However, it's better to get the ICU training and not need it than to need the training and not have it. The 'team nursing' approach (where one nurse is responsible for certain aspects of the patient's care and a different nurse is responsible for other parts) is pretty common right now.

There was another similar post a few weeks ago. I wrote a pretty long, detailed response about why hospitals should be doing exactly what your hospital is trying to do.