whitewriter | Moving to a new unit

First there's the stigma of coming from neuro ICU.
- senior NSICU nurses don't do dialysis or ECMO
- we're rather chill, and have more time to devote to patient care and being nice!
- that means we're lazy and unknowledgeable (neither being true)
- Dirt easy to get to clinical nurse specialist (CNS) level
- Patients are often confused due to their brain injury, and are argumentative, possibly aggressive and at risk of hurting themselves within their confusion

NSICU had the least cliques, we rarely have any socials, no one really goes out drinking together, or parties hard. The one time I went to work drinks they were over by 19:00 and we had maybe 2 drinks each (and that's being generous).

The reputation of BICU:
- cliquey
- people do go out for social/drinks/party a lot. more
- looks down on NSICU
- Harder to get CNS
- That their patients are sicker (well, yes and no)
- a lot more drug addicts/anorexics and less "thankful" individuals who have such low self esteem and awareness that they don't want help- and actively fight against us but cunningly and with purpose. So it can be hard to see through their "disease" as a cause for their non-compliance (sounds bad, but basically yeah... that's how I'd describe it).

TBC...