Day As Icu Nurse Vs Floor Nurse

I downloaded it to my kindle.

Day as icu nurse vs floor nurse. Yes the icu nurse has two patients sometimes three but those patients take up so much time that you are running from the start of the shift to the end. Great book about her experiences as an icu nurse starting from newbie in canada. In the icu both patients need q2h assessments and charting immediately after they are done. You run around all day.

We also have 2 sister floors who float to us they are expected to take. Ashley for 15 off. A day in the life of an er nurse during the covid 19 pandemic. For the icu nurse the flow of the day will depend on what type of patients are on the floor.

These nurses know their stuff. If you re an icu nurse you ll be expected to perform hourly vital signs and assessments. Organization or lack thereof i have never met an icu nurse who wasn t meticulously organized and borderline ocd in the best way possible. One time the patient was crashing and i forgot to put on my personal protective equipment.

In some cases med surg nurses encounter patients that need q2h assessments. Going from 5 patients to just 2 patients i thought would be a breeze but the acuity of these patients in the icu can be equivalent to 10 patients. The unit nurses float to all of the floors of the hospital and we are expected to take a fair share of our load. Ahhhhh you re all making miss the icu.

New lab orders new radiology studies vent settings iv antibiotics abgs and when an icu patient leaves the floor for a test the nurse from the icu must accompany them. Joshua21 stated that if you put an icu nurse on the floor they would be like a duck out of water and vice versa. A nurse s story by tilda sharof. I have been exposed three times to covid 19.

Greetings my fellow nursebros and sisters so todays topic is about my thoughts on new grads either going straight into critical care or getting experience on a med surg floor first. There is a really good book written from the point of an icu nurse. Well at my hospital that is exactly what we do.