How To Remember 5 Patients On Med Surg Floor

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How to remember 5 patients on med surg floor.

Many nurses start their nursing career in med surg acquire excellent clinical skills and then move on to other specialized areas. Others like myself enjoy the myriad of medical conditions on the med surg floor and thrive in that environment. Many med surg floors are general floors where you re going to be seeing patients with all sorts of different illnesses and conditions. Patients on the med surg floor.

Mills t marks e reynolds t et al. Medical surgical nursing is the largest specialty area in nursing. Medical surgical units may also include patients. Transitioning from an icu generally called step down for patients who have special needs which may require physiologic monitoring and a higher nurse to patient ratio than a standard m s unit provides.

By utilizing efficient and secure communication tools nurses and doctors can decrease patient wait times and see improved patient satisfaction rates. The mental health patient on a medical surgical floor contains clinically relevant mental health scenarios depicting nurse patient interactions on a typical medical surgical unit in any va hospital. Two patients can be just as stressful as eight on a med surg floor. On a med surg floor you may have iv pumps sequential compression devices telemetry boxes continuous motion machines and other more or less standard equipment of the nursing profession.

You don t need to know everything. So although she wasn t our favorite we all listened to her when she gave our class advice on how to schedule and orient your day on a med surg floor. But just become familiar with some of the more common occurrences you re going to see as a med surge nurse. Keith brofsky photodisc thinkstock i certainly won t remember this particular nursing school instructor as a warm and fuzzy person but i have to hand it to her.

She was very organized. Essential along the continuum of care. This project grew out of a larger collaboration. November 2012 dear va nurse executive.

It s also often the first nursing job and nurse has out of school. As the largest branch of nursing care med surg nursing has the widest variety of potential patients and diagnoses.