I love this! It’s by far one of the best DITL videos. You did a great job with explaining in detail how your shift went and showing us clips of the process! I have an interview coming up for a Medical Intermediate Care Unit at a level II hospital working with adults. I have been away from the bedside since 2018! Lately, I’ve been working in clinics with children and adults over the years and now that I’m more confident as a “person” I am ready to start my journey to becoming an ICU nurse. I hope I get the job but I’m nervous about going back to bedside and dealing with the hustle and bustle of things. I just want to “really know my patients” and be able to critically think as a nurse. When I worked on a med-surg floor it was so task heavy that I felt like I wasn’t critically thinking and I was just following orders. I hated it. Do you think I’ll be ok working in a step-down unit with my big gap from hospital nursing? Will I be able to focus more on what’s going on with my patients on a deeper level than I would on a Med-Surg unit? Thank you for sharing your life as a Nurse with us 😊!
Thank you for stopping by. I believe that it should be easy for you to get the stepdown unit job because almost every hospital is literally hunting for nurses now. Also, you will have adequate training/preceptorship to get you somewhat ready for going solo. I can tell you that even after preceptorship, u would doubt your capabilities but your confidence will come with time. I always say "always ask when in doubt because it's better to ask and be looked as stupid rather than think you know and make a fatal mistake". Most older nurses love answering questions to teach new nurses and so I always tell them I'm a new nurse and they explain things so well to me. You already have medsurge experience and so bedside wouldn't be totally new to you and yes I agree with you on how you feel when in medsurge. I always say it's boring bec it's like just giving patients their home meds and not thinking hard about what next to do but on the stepdown unit, I can assure you that your nursing judgement and critical thinking hat is always in use. I do have some more videos on my unit coming up soon, so please stay subscribed and support your girl. All the best
I'm thinking of going live to answer all the questions people have about the stepdown unit. Would you want to share questions that I can answer on that session?
@@Stephanieayi01thank you for the insight! Everything you mentioned makes sense and it made me feel a lot better but, I’m so nervous about working as a floor nurse. I ended up canceling the interview and asked to reschedule smh. I also applied for an ICU nurse residency program that accepts nurses that have been away from the bedside for a while. That interview is coming up in a couple weeks as well. I just don’t know what to do or where to start.
@@Stephanieayi01 Just giving an update. I ended up getting into an ICU residency program for new nurses and nurses who have been away from the bedside for over a year. I’m so excited and ready to use my critical thinking skills as a nurse. Thanks for your help 😊!
Thank you so much. There's more to be uploaded. Have you seen my other PCU unit video? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rcWSjI0fH1k.htmlsi=cmpRB4ICKa9gTh5v
I'm thinking of going live to answer all the questions people have about the stepdown unit. Would you want to share questions that I can answer on that session?
I'm thinking of going live to answer all the questions people have about the stepdown unit. Would you want to share questions that I can answer on that session?
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Thanks so much! I'm glad it was very informative for you and I hope you stay tuned to more videos in the future by subscribing to my channel. I still have so many unedited videos to upload! All the best!
thank you for sharing this vlog!! I'm about to start my preceptorship in the PCU, and this has been incredibly helpful in giving me a better understanding of what to expect ❤
I'm glad you loved it and found it helpful. There's plenty more of such videos on my channel. Remember no 2shifts are the same, even if it's the same patients on the next day. Patient condition can easily change suddenly. I wish u all the best as you like, share and support my channel by subscribing.
Be ready to binge watch all other nursing videos on my channel. Keep scrolling on my channel for the videos! This was the 1st Nurse video I posted. I have been posting nurse videos every Saturday since I posted this video
Thank you so much for this video, it was very good... I am a new nurse with a job offer for the PCU so I was wondering what it would be like. . please do more like this! You said this was a chill shift for you, I'm wondering what hectic shift would be like
Hello Julia, thank you for stopping by. We'll I have some more videos scheduled to air soon. With nursing, there's easy days and there's not so easy days. Always keep a positive mind when you go to work You may also want to checkout this video of mine too ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rcWSjI0fH1k.htmlsi=TqIjg8rSLb7gvpVu
