so you need to sine forms to go into icu

Regardless of those details, being told to watch Youtube videos is a completely inappropriate response from the nurse manager and I'm sorry that was even suggested. Without more details it's hard to know the exact situation you may have been put in. Was there any similar arrangement in your hospital? Or were you possibly going to take step-down level of care patients that were boarding in the ICU? That has also happened in our unit in the past. The ICU nurse was going to be responsible for direct patient care and assessments in the COVID rooms, but the med-surg nurses would be handling med-surg appropriate medications and infusions, and would be doing things like titrating pressors and sedation under direct supervision of the RN. Was the scope of the assignment discussed at the time you were told to float? When our disaster planning went into effect in the ICU, part of the management plan was for an ICU nurse to be paired up with 2-3 med/surg nurses as a team. There’s just a lot of ICU things that I’ve never dealt with before. Also no insulin drips, no levophed, no sedative drips. On my unit we don’t have ventilator patients, and the most invasive lines we have our CVLs. You don't mention the patient acuity in the ICU patients you were assigned or the patient acuity in your home unit. You don't really give enough information in your post to help us to help you. When nurses are floated from IMCU to ICU, these are the patients they are assigned. Our ICUs also have about three times as many beds as the IMCU, so it is not unusual for patients to be sitting in ICU when not truly needing the ICU level of care.

These patients can still have invasive monitoring lines and be vented, but they wouldn't be fresh post op hearts, on ECMO or continuous dialysis, or more than one vasoactive drip. What are the differences in types of patients in the ICU vs the step-down unit? At my facility, our intermediate care unit is a stepping stone for those patients who no longer need an ICU bed but are not quite ready for med-surg. As a step-down nurse, you're already going to be more qualified than a med-surg nurse in handling the patient population in ICU. However, you also have to understand that as a worldwide community, we are seeing things we've never seen before and there are times that things aren't going to be ideal. If so, you need to speak up for yourself. Is this the same units you mention in this thread?

So you need to sine forms to go into icu