Starting in the SICU in a few months after having worked neuro med-surg for the last year. Loved this video. Been looking for concise overviews of what to expect and you did a great job.
please do no stop with these educational videos for icu nursing. i've finished my orientation on the sicu floor at my hospital, and wished i found your videos alot sooner! they are all so helpful and alleviating for when i start my first shift on my own tomorrow. your statements are simple, straight-forward and easy to understand.
You’re so handsome, made it easy to listen to. For real though I’m a med student starting my first day on icu and I actually found this super helpful to hear a nurses perspective. Thanks!
I nearly died from a "spontaneous" spleen rupture. My hemoglobin drop bloe 6. Elders from my congregation and family and friends, prayed over me. I have spotted memory. Know that your training, care, knowledge and gut feeling is a gift. ❤
man, as a new grad, i like that you're real. Not like a lot of influencers on ig. been watching your vids for a couple days and they have been helpful.
Tomorrow is my first day on the ICU as a new grad. I appreciated this video so much! It is the first one I have seen that is straightforward and easy to understand. I will definitely keep this info in mind!
Kilo 26 be confident in yourself. I struggled with that a lot. Also, be prepared for clinical scenario types of questions like if you have a pt with low BP and is dizzy what are you gonna do? At least that’s how mine started. I was sweating balls 😆
I’ve been an ER nurse for 2 years now and will be transferring to ICU in a few weeks. I’m excited and nervous at the same time. I want to expand my critical care skill set and knowledge. Get into Critical Care Transport, open more doors for myself instead of feeling stuck in ER. Just hearing your tips here gives me a better understanding of the mindset in ICU. Compared to ER, I’m thinking what are they here for, what’s pending, what’s the plan, what did we do, and what do I have to do to keep them stable until transfer/dc.
Wow. Thank you so much for this message. I have been asking around to all the nurses I know what to expect and not one told me anything helpful. This is exactly the kind of information I was looking for.
I have nothing to do with nursing, however, this was a great video!! It kept my interest from beginning to end!!! I was able to understand the information given and the thought processes behind them!!! GREAT GREAT JOB!!!
Tomorrow will be my first day BACK in ICU after not having worked there for three years. Covid19 brought me back and it led me to your video and it's been helpful. Thank you and stay safe - from Australia.
I start my first shift in CCU on Monday and I found this video so helpful! It also brought back some things I learnt at uni but have not needed to consider on the general medical ward. Thank you for posting this
I'm going in for a interview as a patient care technician in the ICU this friday IM SO NERVOUS i finished my CNA course but i haven't even started my pre reqs for nursing yet I'm dying inside but I'm so excited at the same time !
Alexis Veal that's a great opportunity, but you shouldn't worry cna don't have that much of responsibility as nurses. I've been a Cna for 3 years and it's not bad. Just make sure to check urine, output take vitals, monitor input and output correctly, reposition patients every 2 hours and change them and give bed baths do oral care etc.
Hi Josiah, you obviously seem to be very passionate about nursing and you have the desire to learn more. Thats awesome! Keep doing what youre doing. I love your videos!!
was a tele nurse for almost three years, have floated to ICU before but tomorrow is my first official day as an ICU nurse. Thank you so much for this. freaking out so much that i found this video but thank youuuuu
Thank you for taking the time to share, I recently got offered an ICU residency position for spring 2021. This will definitely help. You just got yourself a new subscriber :-)
My first day of preceptorship at CTICU is in 3 days. Thank you for this!! I want to become an ICU nurse, so thank you for all of your vids, especially the one where you rant in your car! lol its nice to hear the straight truth of what the job is!
Interviewing for Cardiac ICU tomorrow (wish me luck!) and this helped soooo much. Now that I have a general idea of what to expect, I feel more confident!
I got placed in the ICU for my senior nursing capstone/internship! I am so thankful I found this video, I feel like at the very least I won't be walking in blind for my first shift on sunday!
Thank you for posting this. I'm in NP1 and my main goal in life is to be a CRNA. I plan to apply for ICU positions due to the need of experience for crna school. This is something I will go back to constantly as a refresh.
Graduating in December and going to ICU tomorrow for my rotation and also hope to be able to do my preceptorship there! Thanks for the heads up! Will be binging the rest of your videos! Thank you so much for sharing!
Hey Josiah! I'm a med student from Canada, starting my first ICU rotation tomorrow. Thanks for your video, helped me review what to focus on and what to expect a bit! :)
Thanks for the video Josiah, Very helpful info! I just had my first day in ICU for PA school. Man ICU is a BEAST! I was Looking for youtube videos to study and I saw your face lol good to see you are doing great
Hey Megan! That’s so exciting you must be done soon! ICU is definitely a beast of its own and it can never be fully controlled. But I personally really loved it. I’m sure you will too! Best of luck and huge congratulations on all you’ve already accomplished!
I am so happy that I found your videos. You are so insightful. I am about to finish my prerequisite courses for nursing school. I want to be an ICU nurse.
@@TM11.. overwhelming but we have a pretty good orientation where I work, a couple months and lots of classes. So it wasn't so bad, hard when you're an anxious person tho!
@daniellezm Understandable! I'm pretty anxious too, lol so we'll see! But I guess anything new would make us feel this way, but good thing is that we do hv a nursing basis coming in, just gotta change our thought process. Thanks for the insight and continued success on your journey!
Thank you for sharing! I work on a cardiac stepdown unit and I hope to get into the CVICU hopefully by the end of this year! Thank you for the video and the information!
I interviewed for an ICU position a couple weeks ago and my shadow day is today and so nervous I can't sleep 😂 I also don't normally work day shift so this is throwing me off LOL. K, Mg, and hgb are the first values I look at in PCU as well.
Hey there! Love your channel! I plan on getting into the icu when I graduate. I have 2 more semesters and it really helps to hear this because it tells me in studying the right stuff. Everything you went over seems very doable so that gets me excited! I'm vlogging Unruh my nursing journey so we will see how things go along. Thanks again for the video
You are great, arterial line before blood draw for labs , initial 10 cc waste blood first. Is that still the rule? I am all about learning I like your energy
I'm have been a med-surg RN for 2yrs now. I just got a job in the ICU. I start orientation aug 28. Any recommendations for ICU preparations like videos or reading materials? Pls let me know. I greater appreciate it.
jenni santana the best advice I could give is do your best to get a great preceptor someone who challenges you but also makes you feel comfortable that person is who changed everything for me. They're still my role model
Thank-you for your videos! I just started in ICU and I am feeling overwhelmed, learning is a little harder when preceptors are not the teaching type with rather getting things done themselves. Some preceptors make you feel low. Since I am new to the ICU setting, any more advice on how to intervene quickly to pt's conditions changing?
Bubblebee Poo I have very few issues with nursing, but one of my biggest is when “nurses eat their young.” There are going to be preceptors who make you feel low, but please don’t let them discourage you. ICU is hard, there’s no getting around it. But push through it and you’ll find after some time you’ll be swimming and you’ll be the one precepting. The one thing I ask is that you don’t buy into a culture of putting new people down. As to your question on a patient condition changing quickly. If you’re still being precepted, call your preceptor, no matter how scary or impersonal they are. It’s a patients life. Their job is to teach you and your job is to learn. Call them if you feel uncomfortable or concerned about a patients condition, and regardless of their attitude there is something to learn from someone who is experienced, even if they don’t want to teach. So call, explain your rationale, see what they say or do, and take a mental note or actually write a note, review it when you get home and believe it or not... you’ll learn from that. It’s kind of like a sport, I wrestled and really enjoyed MMA and there was something coaches called “mat time” you could practice all you want, drill etc but nothing improved an athlete more than really being in the situations over and over again to become comfortable and competent and know what to do. You learned even when you didn’t know you were learning, when you were just trying to survive. That’s kind of how ICU is. So keep getting your time in, learn as much as you can, study situations that happened during the day when you get home and it will take some time, but one day you’ll be shocked at how much you’ve learned, one day you’ll be the person teaching what you know. So stick with it and don’t let anyone discourage you from being the best you can be.
Great overview!! You should be an educator ... as an educator myself, I admire that you do a great job of explaining the basics of critical care!
I thought the EXACT same thing!! Important information streamlined very well
instaBlaster...
He likes learning to then break it down the most simplest way to teach others! He is pretty awesome!💯
You’re like the most reassuring nurse I have ever listened to 😊
Being a nurse myself.
Good job
The best video ever on UA-cam for icu nurses. Perfect 👍🏽
"Tell a scary story" lol
Right?! It made me giggle
or pinch them really hard:)
If you accidentally rip out their foley catether it will go up as well. (Do not recommend.)
I'm just about to graduate and have secured a registered nurse position in ICU and this has helped me so much! Thank you
Starting in the SICU in a few months after having worked neuro med-surg for the last year. Loved this video. Been looking for concise overviews of what to expect and you did a great job.
That's my plan please tell me how was your transition
Been in ICU for 5 months, this is spot on and helpful, thanks. This is very solid
please do no stop with these educational videos for icu nursing. i've finished my orientation on the sicu floor at my hospital, and wished i found your videos alot sooner! they are all so helpful and alleviating for when i start my first shift on my own tomorrow. your statements are simple, straight-forward and easy to understand.
You’re so handsome, made it easy to listen to. For real though I’m a med student starting my first day on icu and I actually found this super helpful to hear a nurses perspective. Thanks!
I nearly died from a "spontaneous" spleen rupture. My hemoglobin drop bloe 6. Elders from my congregation and family and friends, prayed over me. I have spotted memory. Know that your training, care, knowledge and gut feeling is a gift. ❤
man, as a new grad, i like that you're real. Not like a lot of influencers on ig. been watching your vids for a couple days and they have been helpful.
I work in a large veterinary emergency center and i watch your videos i have learned alot. The 2 worlds are incredibly similar its insane.
Stef nee Wow! Would be awesome if we could cross train into animal OR/ICU. #dreamlife Saving people and animals! Haha
First day in ICU and I realized I need to know all of these...fml
Tomorrow is my first day on the ICU as a new grad. I appreciated this video so much! It is the first one I have seen that is straightforward and easy to understand. I will definitely keep this info in mind!
How is it going? I have an interview for a new grad residency in the icu
I'm starting a new grad program in the ICU in 2 weeks. This video was a great guide bro.
Any tips for a icu residency program interview?
Kilo 26 be confident in yourself. I struggled with that a lot. Also, be prepared for clinical scenario types of questions like if you have a pt with low BP and is dizzy what are you gonna do? At least that’s how mine started. I was sweating balls 😆
I’m a new grad who’s starting at the CICU on August 14!! Super nervous but also excited. Saving this to prepare myself thank you so much for sharing!!
I’ve been an ER nurse for 2 years now and will be transferring to ICU in a few weeks. I’m excited and nervous at the same time. I want to expand my critical care skill set and knowledge. Get into Critical Care Transport, open more doors for myself instead of feeling stuck in ER. Just hearing your tips here gives me a better understanding of the mindset in ICU. Compared to ER, I’m thinking what are they here for, what’s pending, what’s the plan, what did we do, and what do I have to do to keep them stable until transfer/dc.
Thanks for this video, starting in the SICU in a few days... short, sweet and to the point. 🙂
Wow. Thank you so much for this message. I have been asking around to all the nurses I know what to expect and not one told me anything helpful. This is exactly the kind of information I was looking for.
Thank you so much for making this video! Being an ICU nurse is my dream.
I have nothing to do with nursing, however, this was a great video!! It kept my interest from beginning to end!!! I was able to understand the information given and the thought processes behind them!!! GREAT GREAT JOB!!!
Tomorrow will be my first day BACK in ICU after not having worked there for three years. Covid19 brought me back and it led me to your video and it's been helpful. Thank you and stay safe - from Australia.
We are in the exact same boat! Best of luck stay calm and stay safe!
I start my first shift in CCU on Monday and I found this video so helpful! It also brought back some things I learnt at uni but have not needed to consider on the general medical ward. Thank you for posting this
I'm going in for a interview as a patient care technician in the ICU this friday IM SO NERVOUS i finished my CNA course but i haven't even started my pre reqs for nursing yet I'm dying inside but I'm so excited at the same time !
Alexis Veal that's a great opportunity, but you shouldn't worry cna don't have that much of responsibility as nurses. I've been a Cna for 3 years and it's not bad. Just make sure to check urine, output take vitals, monitor input and output correctly, reposition patients every 2 hours and change them and give bed baths do oral care etc.
I was very nervous when I went in to Office Max for my interview. I have been working there for 2 years. You will do fantastic
6 years on. Wondering how it all worked out for you at the interview and in school.
Hi Josiah, you obviously seem to be very passionate about nursing and you have the desire to learn more. Thats awesome! Keep doing what youre doing. I love your videos!!
Tomorrow is my first day in ICU working independently. Good video and thanks for the tips
was a tele nurse for almost three years, have floated to ICU before but tomorrow is my first official day as an ICU nurse. Thank you so much for this. freaking out so much that i found this video but thank youuuuu
Thank you for taking the time to share, I recently got offered an ICU residency position for spring 2021. This will definitely help. You just got yourself a new subscriber :-)
check your creatinine if you are replacing electrolytes!
Why is that?
@@juansaldarriaga8676 I might be wrong but I think it's to check the kidney functions and make sure it can clear the fluids
@@tyrmyrmidon2846 yeah, probably because you cant even give k+ to anyone who have any acute kidney injury or until the urine is at least 30 ml/hr
Thank you so much for sharing your advice. Please make more videos of ICU and routine of ICU nurse.
Good stuff bro, spoken like a true ICU nurse💪🏽
Getting ready for my first clinical rotation through the ICU tomorrow!! Thank you for the info💕
"Tell a scary story"....lol
My first day of preceptorship at CTICU is in 3 days. Thank you for this!! I want to become an ICU nurse, so thank you for all of your vids, especially the one where you rant in your car! lol its nice to hear the straight truth of what the job is!
Liked this video. Gave me some basics. I'll start ICU in a month after a year of med surg. Thank you.
Great to know! This is very helpful- I feel like I know nothing. Thank you so much!
Thank you! I will be precepting in ICU soon and I wrote notes on your video very informative and educational on tips to look out for. LOVE IT!
Thank you from a new grad ICU nurse! Looking forward to watching all your videos!
helpful video....even I am very frustrated with the same situation as you explained .now I am ok after listening that you too gone through the same
Interviewing for Cardiac ICU tomorrow (wish me luck!) and this helped soooo much. Now that I have a general idea of what to expect, I feel more confident!
Pablo Espana pablo how is it going? Tomorrow is my 8th day and i feel soo insecure still
Starting an ICU internship next week thanks for the tips!!
Bad ass video! Thanks for the heads up on what to know. I am doing a critical care rotation next semester and want to go in ready.
I got placed in the ICU for my senior nursing capstone/internship! I am so thankful I found this video, I feel like at the very least I won't be walking in blind for my first shift on sunday!
Thanks Josiah! Starting my journey in ICU in 2 weeks! This lesson really gave me peace of mind and a start point to dig deeper into these concepts.
Thank you for posting this. I'm in NP1 and my main goal in life is to be a CRNA. I plan to apply for ICU positions due to the need of experience for crna school. This is something I will go back to constantly as a refresh.
Graduating in December and going to ICU tomorrow for my rotation and also hope to be able to do my preceptorship there! Thanks for the heads up! Will be binging the rest of your videos! Thank you so much for sharing!
thank you thank you thank you. This is what I need!
Hey Josiah! I'm a med student from Canada, starting my first ICU rotation tomorrow. Thanks for your video, helped me review what to focus on and what to expect a bit! :)
Thanks for the video Josiah, Very helpful info! I just had my first day in ICU for PA school. Man ICU is a BEAST! I was Looking for youtube videos to study and I saw your face lol good to see you are doing great
Hey Megan! That’s so exciting you must be done soon! ICU is definitely a beast of its own and it can never be fully controlled. But I personally really loved it. I’m sure you will too! Best of luck and huge congratulations on all you’ve already accomplished!
this is helpful especially for a 3 year ER nurse cross training in ICU
I just got hired in the icu so this video was helpful to watch~ :D going to vlog my journey as I gain more experience as a new nurse :)
I am so happy that I found your videos. You are so insightful. I am about to finish my prerequisite courses for nursing school. I want to be an ICU nurse.
Where have you been all my life! This is amazing thanks for sharing.
Forever ❤ for ICU nurses. 😊
Thank U for giving such important info that others may prob take for granted!!! New Sub 👌🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽
New grad RN here! Starting in the ICU tomorrow! This was super helpful and allowed me to relax a bit 😉
Tabitha Klein hows it been going?? I start in 2 months
Dude, you're good at this. Tell a scary story! Hahaha!
Great overview! I'm transitioning to cardiac ICU after 4.5 years of med-surg and I'm soooo nervous. So I'm trying to prepare!
Hi! How was the transition? I'm a MS Tele nurse abt to do the same..
@@TM11.. overwhelming but we have a pretty good orientation where I work, a couple months and lots of classes. So it wasn't so bad, hard when you're an anxious person tho!
@daniellezm Understandable! I'm pretty anxious too, lol so we'll see! But I guess anything new would make us feel this way, but good thing is that we do hv a nursing basis coming in, just gotta change our thought process. Thanks for the insight and continued success on your journey!
@@TM11.. thank you
Just accepted and ICU position after doing rehab and surgical. This helped a buttload! Thanks dude!
"tell a scary story" for MAP lol I love it
"tell a scary story" lol thanks for the tips
still getting my prereqs for nursing so I'll have to ref this later! good video!
Thank you so much for the video, really helped me as an ICU new staff
Handsome nurse🤩
Thank you for sharing! I work on a cardiac stepdown unit and I hope to get into the CVICU hopefully by the end of this year! Thank you for the video and the information!
It was awesome thank you
Got bless you!! You helped me so much!!!
Very good orientation thanks
That was awesome!
I interviewed for an ICU position a couple weeks ago and my shadow day is today and so nervous I can't sleep 😂 I also don't normally work day shift so this is throwing me off LOL. K, Mg, and hgb are the first values I look at in PCU as well.
Mariangely i feel you! Thats me right now
Where did you disappear to?!
thank u ....quite helpfull...im a new icu nurse
Going to MICU next week bro! I’m on my last sem of ADN.
I have started training since sept. its awesome but concentration has to be good. thanks for the talk bro.
Italian mafia knows sign language
this was very helpful, thanks a lot.
Thankyou dear iam waiting to enter as a new nurse ❤️
Hey there! Love your channel! I plan on getting into the icu when I graduate. I have 2 more semesters and it really helps to hear this because it tells me in studying the right stuff. Everything you went over seems very doable so that gets me excited! I'm vlogging Unruh my nursing journey so we will see how things go along. Thanks again for the video
Thank you for this video. More power.
Thanks for making these videos!
This video was 10/10
Very good. Thanks.
Very helpful. I start cvicu 02/10
My first day on the MICU is tomorrow! Thanks for the tips!
Great video! This would have been great when I first entered the ICU!
I'm in my Infancy; taking anatomy and physiology one. I want to be in ICU nurse. I pray o God I get there.
thank you!!
Wow! Thank you 🙏🏼
Thank you !
Thanks you love your explanation.
You are great, arterial line before blood draw for labs , initial 10 cc waste blood first. Is that still the rule? I am all about learning I like your energy
impressive! ☺️
Thanks I’m in wk 2 of being in the ccu so this helps
Very good video!
I am now working as a nurse in ICU
Thank you
Thanks a lot
great review thank you
I'm have been a med-surg RN for 2yrs now. I just got a job in the ICU. I start orientation aug 28. Any recommendations for ICU preparations like videos or reading materials? Pls let me know. I greater appreciate it.
jenni santana the best advice I could give is do your best to get a great preceptor someone who challenges you but also makes you feel comfortable that person is who changed everything for me. They're still my role model
Thank-you for your videos! I just started in ICU and I am feeling overwhelmed, learning is a little harder when preceptors are not the teaching type with rather getting things done themselves. Some preceptors make you feel low. Since I am new to the ICU setting, any more advice on how to intervene quickly to pt's conditions changing?
Bubblebee Poo I have very few issues with nursing, but one of my biggest is when “nurses eat their young.” There are going to be preceptors who make you feel low, but please don’t let them discourage you. ICU is hard, there’s no getting around it. But push through it and you’ll find after some time you’ll be swimming and you’ll be the one precepting. The one thing I ask is that you don’t buy into a culture of putting new people down. As to your question on a patient condition changing quickly. If you’re still being precepted, call your preceptor, no matter how scary or impersonal they are. It’s a patients life. Their job is to teach you and your job is to learn. Call them if you feel uncomfortable or concerned about a patients condition, and regardless of their attitude there is something to learn from someone who is experienced, even if they don’t want to teach. So call, explain your rationale, see what they say or do, and take a mental note or actually write a note, review it when you get home and believe it or not... you’ll learn from that. It’s kind of like a sport, I wrestled and really enjoyed MMA and there was something coaches called “mat time” you could practice all you want, drill etc but nothing improved an athlete more than really being in the situations over and over again to become comfortable and competent and know what to do. You learned even when you didn’t know you were learning, when you were just trying to survive. That’s kind of how ICU is. So keep getting your time in, learn as much as you can, study situations that happened during the day when you get home and it will take some time, but one day you’ll be shocked at how much you’ve learned, one day you’ll be the person teaching what you know. So stick with it and don’t let anyone discourage you from being the best you can be.
Josiah Shoon thank you again!
Very very helpful