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How to Become an ICU Nurse
If you want t become an ICU Nurse, you should really have the heart to give one-on-one care to your
patient; needless to say, you should embrace nursing interventions from the most basic procedure of
bathing your patient, turning him to side every two hours, changing his soiled diaper, draining his urine
bag and so on. Being an ICU nurse doesn’t limit you to doing highly specialized skills and in administering
emergency and highly potent medications; but also get you involve in assisting the patient in his hygiene
and self-care.
Basically, the starting point of your career towards becoming an ICU nurse is for you to finish your BSN
degree in nursing school. After you are done with this fundamental step, you should still review for your
NCLEX. Once you pass the exam, you are then, given license to practice as a nurse. However, even while
you are reviewing you can already do some volunteer works which can also expose you to different
areas and feed you with experience in working with your co-workers and other people.
Going back, once you earned your nursing license already, you can then, apply to different hospitals in
your place or you can choose among the offers from you way back when you were still in college. Once
you are hired in the hospital, you still can’t expect that you will be assigned in the intensive care unit.
Well, it’s just that most hospitals don’t really hire new graduate nurses for a position in the ICU.
However, you can try your luck because at times there are also some hospitals who hire even new
graduate nurses; but of course, you still need to undergo in their short training and internship program.
On the other hand, you can still apply for a position as a staff nurse in the hospital and accept the area
that you will be assigned to. In a matter of months or years of actual hospital experience, you can sign-
up for the hospital’s internship program for ICU nurses. If you pass the program, then you can begin
your career as an ICU nurse. It might take some time, but you just have to wait; instead, of wasting your
time in waiting for a job offer as an ICU nurse, it will be better if you gain experience as a staff nurse in
other areas and during this time you should harness your skills and advance your nursing knowledge.
More so, while waiting for the time for you to get into the internship for ICU, you can also take your
master’s degree in nursing so as when time comes for you to prove your worth in the ICU, you will really
have high chance of being hired for the position. In addition, with a master’s degree you also have
higher chances of being promoted. My point here is that, you may not become an ICU nurse the
moment you earned your license, but that should not be a reason for you to be depressed and to
squander; instead, do your best to prepare yourself for a better future in the field of nursing. When it’s
your time, then at least you’ve gained enough experience and edge to your co-nurses in the unit.