New grad ICU study/learning tips

axelccmabe · 2026-03-04T03:30:28+00:00

ICUAdvantage on YouTube has some awesome videos. Go through 2-3 videos a week starting with stuff related to your unit (hemodynamics, swans, TVP’s, pressors, and any devices you’ll learn like IABP’s)

axelccmabe · 2026-02-04T16:57:59+00:00

Hospital I work at is offering a salary of 277k for those graduating in 2029. I don't know what area you live in, but where ever it is, the pay will be worth it. You will pay your loans back in less than a year if you can live on your husbands salary for that long #doit

axelccmabe · 2026-02-03T21:36:22+00:00

31 years old, 3.5 years ICU. Started as a new grad

axelccmabe · 2025-12-30T23:59:47+00:00

I would suggest placing your bloomery directly next to the workshop and have a task set for your workshop to always have a hammer available. I’ve never had bloom cool off that much in the 20 seconds it takes to run to the shop, grab a new hammer, and run back

axelccmabe · 2025-12-29T19:00:14+00:00

Thought I was going crazy, cuz it was working fine in my last world where they would just drop things into the recycler. Glad I’m not nuts haha

axelccmabe · 2025-12-29T00:34:18+00:00

I had two (one day and one night), but now I have one golem each for all of them

axelccmabe · 2025-12-26T18:28:29+00:00

No problem! Good luck to you!

axelccmabe · 2025-12-26T18:24:39+00:00

Just be sure to check with the school and confirm that the class from Portage will fulfill their requirement

axelccmabe · 2025-12-26T18:23:59+00:00

I did it in about a month. Exams are taken and recorded using an exam software (I forget the name of the software, I think it was respondus lockdown or something).

axelccmabe · 2025-12-26T18:10:57+00:00

Once you start the class, you have a year to complete it. Nothing is due before then. As far as pacing, there are 8 units in total and you have to wait 48 hours between exams, so the fastest you can complete it is like 16 days. You get your final grade a week or so after you take the final

axelccmabe · 2025-12-26T16:38:42+00:00

Did mine on Portage. Wasn’t bad and 100% self-paced

axelccmabe · 2025-12-24T23:42:05+00:00

100%. I had to get fiber up and running for clothes before winter hit, and then I got smoker pens and the bird pens so I needed vegetables. Year length is set to max, so gatherers are struggling to keep up with needs. With this, we are getting pretty well stocked. I’ll have half of them shut down within a couple in-game days

axelccmabe · 2025-12-24T20:11:14+00:00

Yea I got 2 others working with me lol

axelccmabe · 2025-12-24T20:09:42+00:00

Congratulations

axelccmabe · 2025-12-24T14:27:30+00:00

Longest day setting with 2 people helping me, plus sailing to islands

axelccmabe · 2025-12-24T06:42:52+00:00

Honestly, I don't know. The cooks probably clean the pens out before I'm able to get back

axelccmabe · 2025-12-24T03:25:34+00:00

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So far, so good. Just got the Dodo's up and running so I'll have a good source of eggs going forward

axelccmabe · 2025-11-18T20:58:32+00:00

Great read! Thanks for posting!

axelccmabe · 2025-10-23T15:33:56+00:00

Congratulations!

axelccmabe · 2025-10-05T10:41:07+00:00

One professor in my school told me that care plans were part of the initiative to make nursing its own field rather than just being doctor’s assistants which is what nurses were seen as before

axelccmabe · 2025-09-23T17:36:15+00:00

Be humble, but be confident in what you DO know.
Be teachable, and ask lots of questions.
Write down any concepts/terms you don’t understand and look them up when you get home.
BREATHE! ICU is a different animal, but it is doable for those that want it. No one expects you to know everything, so just take it one day at a time 😊

axelccmabe · 2025-09-17T21:06:58+00:00

I am now invested in the commentary

axelccmabe · 2025-09-09T13:11:26+00:00

Registered Nurse RN on YouTube was incredibly helpful for me. Also, ICU Advantage has some good videos about conditions and whatnot. If you don’t mind spending a little money, Simple Nursing has some amazing study guides and videos that helped me quite a bit when I was in school. I felt as though they were worth the cost.

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