Being new in the ICU is not easy. You need to have the passion for critical care so much that you really don’t care how difficult it is. That passion is what gets you through the newbie stress. I was a new grad in the ICU, I started straight out of nursing school. I knew that’s where I belonged and I had wanted ICU all 4 years of school, with no hesitations. And even with that insane passion and devotion to the field of critical care, I went home in tears A LOT during orientation and lost 15 pounds.

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