New to ICU: A Visual Guide to Critical Care Nursing
New to ICU: A Visual Guide to Critical Care Nursing
📖 10 color-coded sections, 119+ pages of ICU-ready visuals
🧠 Turns dense critical care concepts into diagrams that click
💉 Like having a preceptor in your pocket, every shift
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New to ICU: A Visual Guide to Critical Care Nursing
"I'm three weeks into ICU orientation and this is the reason I don't freeze anymore. I wish someone handed me this on day one."
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Product Details
Product Details
New to ICU: A Visual Guide to Critical Care Nursing (Edition 2.0) is a color-coded visual reference built to get new and returning ICU nurses floor-ready fast. Inside you'll find 10 fully organized sections — Introduction, Lab Fundamentals, Daily Screening Tools, Neuro, Trauma, Cardiac, Invasive Monitoring, Respiratory, Medical/Surgical, and Continuous Infusions — spanning 119+ pages. Spiral-bound paperback, written and illustrated by Scrub Life Notes, LLC.
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Return & Refund Policy
Return & Refund Policy
Not the right fit? You have 30 days from the date of delivery to return it for a full refund. If your book arrives damaged or defective, reach out to us first and we'll send a replacement or refund, no return shipping needed. Contact our support team to start any return.
A GUIDE THAT TEACHES WHAT NURSING SCHOOL NEVER DID
Clinical confidence you'll actually use on shift
Every section is built from real ICU scenarios. A trauma admission with an MTP running. A vasopressor titration your preceptor grills you on. A moment where freezing costs you credibility. This guide shows you the concept, breaks down the reasoning, then hands you the exact steps.
No dense black-and-white text. No digging through a 300-page nursing textbook. Just 10 color-coded sections that get you floor-ready, fast.
LIKE HAVING A PRECEPTOR IN YOUR POCKET
New to ICU hands you the answer before your preceptor finishes the question. Instead of getting caught flat-footed on MTP ratios or vasopressor titration, you flip to the page and walk through it with confidence.
Each section breaks down one high-stakes topic: how to read invasive monitoring, when a drip needs titrating, what your first trauma admission actually looks like. You see the concept mapped out visually first, so it clicks instead of blurring together.
With 10 color-coded sections and 119+ pages, every page gives you something you can pull out and use on your very next shift.
QUICK ANSWERS ABOUT WHAT'S INSIDE
What's inside New to ICU?
What's inside New to ICU?
10 color-coded sections and 119+ pages covering Lab Fundamentals, Daily Screening Tools, Neuro, Trauma, Cardiac, Invasive Monitoring, Respiratory, Medical/Surgical, and Continuous Infusions. Every concept is broken down visually, not buried in dense black-and-white text.
Who is this guide for?
Who is this guide for?
Built for new grad nurses starting ICU orientation, nursing students prepping for critical care rotations, IMCU nurses stepping up to the ICU, and experienced nurses coming back to the bedside after time away.
Is this a textbook or a quick reference?
Is this a textbook or a quick reference?
It's a visual reference guide — color-coded, diagram-heavy, and built to get you an answer fast, not buried three chapters deep. Spiral-bound so it lies flat on a workstation, and small enough to keep in your bag or locker on shift.
Does it cover MTP protocols and vasopressor titration?
Does it cover MTP protocols and vasopressor titration?
Yes. You'll find full breakdowns on massive transfusion protocol ratios, vasoactive pharmacodynamics, Cardene titration, invasive monitoring, and more — the exact topics preceptors love to test on your first weeks.