I am an ICU nurse and really do not want to take anymore time off than I absolutely have to. I have very supportive co-workers that will help with turns etc. and will honestly spend 40% bedside probably, and the rest as house supervisor, and charge. What is the absolute shortest recovery time I should expect for VSG surgery?

I am an ER nurse and was told 4 weeks off, honestly I could have went back sooner - the thought was, I work in kind of a violent place at times, ICU should be better

I'm not a nurse yet but I am a float patient care tech and I know we do most of the lifting so when I come back I think the lightest duty I can come back to if I were to come less than 4 weeks would be the ER. Atleast doing 1:1 there start off first with 4 hrs then work my way up from there

Everyone is different but I felt great after 4 days. You just can't lift over 10 lbs for several weeks.