As a practicing hospital pharmacist (not specialized in critical care pharmacy), you have been asked to cover the clinical duties in the ICUs. What are the barriers that might challenge you? Please write down the poll if you have others reasons.

Thanks all for voting. I do agree that all of these challenges might affect you. I’ll be sharing some tips that might help non ICU pharmacists in their first time of covering ICUs. When things look like this, where should you start?

As shown in the voting the lack of experience and the complexity of the cases were the highest. To a lesser extent fear of unknown and high demands in the area. In this thread I’ll be sharing tips that have helped me in my first time in ICUs as a non ICU pharmacist back in 2008.

Besides tons of advices as a specialized critical care pharmacist 12 years later.
I’ll not start by resources for reading and guidelines, also I’ll not talk about medications...etc