Good CVICU/MICU in AZ?
Asking if any AZ nurses can give any insight on what AZ hospitals have ICUs that take care of CVICU patients within their ICU, but without being a dedicated CVICU that only does CV patients and nothing else.
I moved to AZ a while ago, after working originally in a hospital where the ICU was all one ICU (it was SICU/MICU/CVICU patients, all in one single unit, not broken all up like other hospitals). I like the variety of general MICU patients but with a leaning towards cardiac (I love cardiac populations and devices). I just wouldn’t want to work in a dedicated CVICU - I want to take care of CVICU patients but normal MICU patients too. I like when an ICU is just all one ICU.
(Also, specifically, if anyone can give any insight, I’m curious about Chandler Regional’s CVICU. On a job posting I read for a CVICU nurse at Chandler Regional, they described their ICU by saying it’s a MICU with 34 beds, with 12 of them being CVICU. Sounds like it’s a MICU but with CV included, but not separated units. Is it like working in a MICU in a general day to day, but still being exposed to and taking care of specialized cardiac patients/devices/surgeries when the occasion arises. Has anyone worked at Chandler and knows the set-up of that? Is the CVICU its own separate, distinct unit, or it really just incorporated within the MICU, and so you get to see both CVICU and MICU patients?)