Medical Surgical Floor Patients

Surgical floors are much different than a medical floor i find the patients on surgical floor require more time due to pain issues ambulation time and endless post op complications not covered here.

Medical surgical floor patients. The medical intensive care unit micu is for care if you re critically ill with a medical problem such as a chronic disease like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease copd or diabetes or if you re acutely ill and for example develop a serious infection. The patient s life cannot be sustained without interventions from the staff on that floor. 30 bed medical surgical telemetry unit with the capacity of a nine bed intermediate unit. The unit specialization is on medical surgical oncology patients chemotherapy administration and end of life care including the nursing care management of post operative and medical patients as well.

Has been admitted to a medical surgical floor for nursing care. Micu patients are managed by physicians who have a background in internal medicine. This is no small feat. The typical staff ratio of nurses to patients is somewhere around 1 4 but can be up to 1 10 on the night shift.

The medical surgical unit is an 8 bed unit with the purpose of allowing transfers or admissions of medical surgical acute care patients who would benefit from a single room placement due to isolation or other identified needs. As might exist in your facility this category of patients can be challenging to staff nurses who although well prepared to care for the patient s medical surgical concerns may lack the specialty training to appropriately manage their mental health needs. We also get to deal with medical issues that the patient has copd diabetes crohns you name it along with their surgical procedure. Put simply a surgical nursing job description is.

The nurse is responsible for the care of patients who have medical or surgical complications.