Nursing administration and graduate schools find critical care nurses highly desirable because of their ingenuity, leadership, and well-defined management skills. When you add a booming job market in critical care, this specialty becomes even more desirable. Nurses who enjoy the greatest success are those who understand the demands of the job and possess key personal and professional characteristics. She says that nurses in this area must be able to make decisions and assimilate large amounts of constantly changing information.
Critical care requires continual problem-solving.
Successful critical care nurses are highly motivated to learn and take on responsibility. I tell my nurses that when I stop learning, I'm leaving. Resources such as seminars, conferences, continuing education modules, and journal articles help them keep up on their fast-paced specialty. If you want a highly predictable life, critical care is not for you. Critical care nurses must be able to explore that which is not well known.