# years experience and interested in ICU

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I have 3.5 years experience mostly Med/Surg/Tele with about a year of cardiac. A friend of mine thinks I would love ICU. I wanted to ask you guys what you love and hate about ICU. My friend know I am very particular about dotting my I's and crossing my T's and that is why she thinks I would like ICU.

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Specializes in CTICU.

Likes ICU: Type A personality, focused, good critical thinking skills, analytical, organized, detail-oriented.

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The unit takes everything you've learned in medsurg and then puts it on steroids. You learn so much more about pharmacology and physiology than you ever thought you would. You monitor for upward or downward trends. Typically have lots of protocols and standing orders as well as have a very close and collaborative relationship with the physicians.

What I love about ICU

-Technology-->Vents, monitors, swans, numbers, etc.

-Pharmacology

-Physiology

-1-3 patients

What I hate:

Families have the potential to be 10 times more exhausting

Total Care

Torturing people who usually end up dying.

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