¶ … pressure a junior nurse? How respond time? What examples stressors experienced Intensive Care Nursing (: patient emergency situation, increased heart rate, shock? Q2: What qualities bring Intensive Care environment? For: good time management skill, 8 weeks placement ICU nursing student.
Give an example of a time when you were under pressure as a junior nurse? How did you respond at the time and afterwards? What may be examples of stressors experienced in Intensive Care Nursing (for example: patient in emergency situation, increased heart rate, shock and so on)?
As a junior nurse, simply adjusting to the experience of being a professional caregiver was stressful. I felt very acutely the reality that other people's lives depended upon me. When there were other nurses on staff who were ready to provide assistance if I required guidance, I felt less nervous. Still, it was occasionally awkward to interrupt other nurses with what I feared would seem like 'silly questions.' I have often heard the phrase that nurses 'eat their young' or can haze or act abrasively towards junior staff members. I did...
Patients may be unconscious and unable to communicate with the nurse. Careful attention to the patient's vital signs and what the immediate physical state of the patient reveals is demanded to ensure that the highest quality care possible is disseminated, even in the most trying of circumstances.
Q2: What qualities will you bring to the Intensive Care environment? For example: good time management skill, 8 weeks placement in ICU as nursing student.
I think that the strongest unique quality I bring to an ICU is that of my ability to think quickly and work well under pressure. A very wide variety of patients with different types of complaints are present on the floor…
