Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Nurse

Intensive care nurses (ICU) are also known as critical care nurses and are highly trained and knowledgeable in their area of specialty. Nurses working in intensive care provide care to patients across all ages with critical and life-threatening medical conditions.  They are able to carry out complex tasks and instructions in order to manage ill patients in restoring their health.

Other areas of intensive care include neurological ICU, cardiac ICU, trauma ICU, burn ICU, surgical ICU, transplant ICU, pediatric ICU, and neonatal ICU. Each area is unique and requires specialized training.

Often ICU nurses are trained to be a part of the rapid response team or code blue team and will respond to other floors where a patient may have become unstable and the team provides resuscitation or interventions as needed to stabilize the patient.

ICU nurses are trained to perform and/or assist in interventions such as intubation, ventilator management, vasopressors, defibrillation or cardiac pacing, IV management, wound care, neuromonitoring, and more.

According to the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN), the following are considered standards of practice for this area:

• Check and record vital signs every hour
• Head-to-toe assessment and documentation every 4 hours
• Lab draws usually at least daily
• Repositioning and skin integrity check every 2 hours
• Wound care every shift
• Frequent evaluation of continuous telemetry monitoring
• Constant critical thinking to determine worst-case scenarios for each bodily system and systematic preparation for each scenario.

ICU & Critical Care Nurse Organizations and Certifications

• American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
• Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) Certification
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

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Once a retainer agreement is signed with Expert Witness Nurses the expert will start working on your case. The expert will collaborate directly with you for medical records and providing their report. Expert Witness Nurses will coordinate invoicing of the expert’s hours, including the retainer invoice and monthly invoicing as required.

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