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Available now · A funny puzzle book for ICU nurses

My break ishemodynamically unstable.

100 original ICU puzzles. Five styles. Zero CE credits.

Search ICU vocabulary, decode the unit’s internal monologue, navigate transports through mazes, unscramble report, and find what wandered in from another assignment. Every problem has an answer—and stays solved.

100 original puzzles5 ICU-specific styles134 black-and-white pages
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WHAT’S INSIDE

Five ways to look busy
between the beeps.

Central Monitor✦Encrypted Handoff✦Transport Has Left the Chat✦Scrambled Report✦Not in This Assignment

Twenty puzzles in every style, exactly twenty words in every word search, ICU-specific humor, and a complete answer key.

ACTUAL BLACK-AND-WHITE PAGES

Problems you can solve
without charting them.

These are real pages from the finished interior—not color mockups, clinical exercises, or generic nurse puzzles.

Actual black-and-white Pump Committee word search from My Break Is Hemodynamically Unstable.

20 puzzles · 20 words each

Central Monitor

Search for ICU vocabulary while every imaginary channel requests the floor at once.
Actual black-and-white Chair Has a Sensor cryptogram from My Break Is Hemodynamically Unstable.

20 puzzles

Encrypted Handoff

Decode the unit’s inner monologue—the part nobody had time to chart.
Actual black-and-white To CT Allegedly maze from My Break Is Hemodynamically Unstable.

20 puzzles

Transport Has Left the Chat

Navigate increasingly twisty routes through elevators, hallways, and suspicious delays.
Actual black-and-white Pump Vocabulary word scramble from My Break Is Hemodynamically Unstable.

20 puzzles · 10 terms each

Scrambled Report

Put ICU-workflow terms back in order. Every letter arrived; their sequence did not.
Actual black-and-white Bedside or Break Room odd-one-out puzzle from My Break Is Hemodynamically Unstable.

20 puzzles

Not in This Assignment

Seven choices follow one objective rule. One has wandered in from somewhere else.

THE ALARMS HAVE BEEN SILENCED. ADMINISTRATIVELY.

A rare problem
that stays solved.

One hundred original puzzles, five different styles, and complete solutions in a large-format paperback built for break rooms, night shifts, nurse appreciation gifts, and the six minutes before report.

100 original puzzles8.5 × 11 large formatAnswers included
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