Medical Floor Nursing

Provides medical dialysis and post operative nursing care for 5 6 adult and geriatric patients with respiratory gastrointestinal issues and conditions including emphysema endoscopy preparation bowel resections and abdominal laparoscopy.

Medical floor nursing. Specializes in ltc med surg hospice. This is just not so in the icu. For starters learning how to operate the ventilator could take up an entire nursing school class. Medical surgical nursing is an exception field in the sense it is not limited to the disease process or body systems but rather holistic in approach.

The medical surgical nurse is responsible for being an expert in a wide array of conditions that patients present with on the medical surgical floor of the hospital. 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. It was like taking the sickest nursing home patients and putting them on one floor. We had 36 beds and one or two aides.

A floor unit in a hospital is where you re cared for when you don t require especially close monitoring. Medical surgical nursing is practiced in several settings across the health care industry including hospitals outpatient settings in homes via telemedicine and other non traditional settings. It s also often the first nursing job and nurse has out of school. I would say our average age patient was about 70 or 75.

It requires nurses to acquire and maintain diverse and extensive knowledge and skills on the different aspects of nursing care. Patients on this unit may have a medical issue such as a disease or illness or may be recovering from a surgical procedure or preparing for one. 9 on the floor your vital signs may be taken every few hours rather than being constantly monitored as you would be in the critical care areas. The medical surgical nurse has an incredibly complex job.

Nursing care is directed toward alleviating physical and psychosocial health problems. My first nursing job was on a medical floor at a hospital. The entry level medical surgical nurse makes nursing judgments based on scientific knowledge and relies on procedures and standardized care plans. Med surg nursing requires attention to detail excellent multi tasking skills and a level head under pressure.