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Tag: MICU

  • Back to the MICU, and back to Liverland

    So this MICU shift was very difficult after all, and it wasn’t for the reasons that I suspected. I thought it would be the tasks that got me down, i.e. not enough time to get things done. Surprise, surprise, turns out it was the patients. Imagine a patient with End Stage Live Disease. She currently…

  • Sick as Snot (or Not)

    Last year I was talking to this doctor while I was still in nursing school and contemplating working in the MICU. “Those patients are sick as snot,” she said. I love that expression. It really paints a picture. I’m here to tell you, though, that it’s not entirely true. There is one night nurse in…