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Nurses providing critical care really do find themselves right in the middle of the action. This is certainly true of stepdown nursing. Stepdown nurses provide the crucial intermediary care that patients need when they are stable enough to leave the intensive care unit but are not yet stable enough to be transferred to general med/surg. Stepdown nurses find themselves responsible for monitoring the well-being of their patients who face a variety of injuries and illnesses.

While stepdown nursing certainly requires advanced experience and training, typically an associate’s degree in nursing qualifies as a sufficient level of formal education. Beyond this, stepdown nurses must complete critical care training that is similar to the training that ICU nurses receive. If you are interested in learning more about the process of becoming a stepdown nurse, you can learn more about what it from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.