CCU was a good place to work.
Pros: ccu was great, positive experience
Cons: cvicu was very clickish, negative atmospere
I worked 3 yrs in CCU. Everyone worked well together. Postive atmosphere. Management was great.
I worked 2 yrs in CVICU. Very negative atmosphere. Clickish. I was older than most people there and was constantly reminded of that by my charge nurse. Instead of my past experience being a positive thing, I was made to feel a negative connotation. It was
– more... very stressfull of course and I was just learning to recover open heart patients. But lack of leadership and support from immediate supervisor and staff members was a definite drawback. It certainly could have been made better by working together. I had a different manager than I did in CCU. I was made to feel like I was whining about any complaint, and I heard, "Well you know how they are." too many times. I wanted to learn and I did learn a lot, but I felt as if I were in the way most of the time. – less