Navigating your first two weeks in the ICU

This episode covers your first two weeks in the ICU out of nursing school. Often these first two weeks are daunting, both for new nurses of those training them! The episode covers preparation before the first shift, essentials to bring on your first day, and lays out a potential path for each successive shift that best supports new nurses. This episode has both new nurses and preceptors in mind. As a new nurse you may find yourself in a ICU and your preceptor has no clear goals for each shift or you're a new preceptor and you are struggling to know where to begin. Equipment discussed in this episode include the Weltool M6 diagnostic penlight, Pyrsiva medical emergency trauma sheers, and Littmann Cardiology IV/Master of Cardiology stethoscopes.