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Post by malkieh on Dec 4, 2011 3:10:52 GMT -5
I have one more day in ICU, and honestly I did not like it at all!
I ended up with a very demanding patient and it wore me down really
fast!! I am terrified to go back this week! B"H only have one day there, but omg!
It was also heart wrenching because one of my patients had been moved to ICU, and to see how far she had dropped killed me.
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Post by medic09 on Dec 4, 2011 13:45:40 GMT -5
Clearly ICU isn't for everybody. It is where you see the sickest patients. They're very labor intensive, and you often/usually can't interact with them much on a cognitive interactive level.
These rotations help clarify what your niche might be. Most of us don't fit well everywhere. I thought I might want to work NICU, until I did a 7 week rotation there during nursing school. It was tremendously interesting; but I also found it intimidating and emotionally hard. So that helped decide the issue for me.
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Post by Rivka P on Dec 11, 2011 22:11:20 GMT -5
you're lucky you have an ICU rotation, for the reason medic stated above. We did not have an ICU rotation in my nursing school.
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Post by malkieh on Dec 12, 2011 10:48:33 GMT -5
Actually I enjoyed my second day of ICU, I think it depends on who is the nurse they pair you with. The one that they paired me with on the first day kind of made my day miserable.
Second day, the nurses asked me a lot of questions like what are my skills what do I know and tested my knowledge. Then they were like we need you to do this, this and this... Like they trusted me to do accuchecks etc etc.. Check vitals, so it was like I was a mini nurse... so to speak so that experience was amazing.
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