Neuro Med Surg Floor

Nurses in these units may have higher patient to nurse ratios as well.

Neuro med surg floor. It can be challenging every day. Which client should be assessed first. Neuro is a specialized med surg population so we have all the same things you ll see on a typical med surg floor chest tubes ng tubes trachs etc plus neuro specific skills like lumbar drains and externalized shunts. What i found stressful was the constant flow of discharges and admits associated with neuro patients.

I have a while before i start orientation and i. We get a lot of post fall tia observation ams etc. Of course i will get what i am given but still being undecisive what path i want to take. I am a new rn and just started on the neuro med surg unit at my hospital.

I know that the neuro unit we send patients out to gets some non neuro med surg admissions too. General medicine nurses working in general medicine may work in med surgical med surg floors or general medicine which both refer to catch all floors where individuals who do not meet criteria for admission to critical care or specialty units are admitted. We have another floor for neuro cva ms etc. Also you ll work with a lot of psych type patients due to the nature of neurological disorders.

Our floor has frequent patient turnover but we are usually pretty full. I didn t find caring for neuro patients to be any more stressful than the medical patients pneumonia copd gi bleeds etc. I work on a med surg neuro floor i usually have 5 patients on a typical dayshift and maybe there are 6 patients scheduled for overnight. A quick break down of what a registered nurse does on a day on a busy medical surgical unit in the hospital.

Greetings allnurses i just wanted to asked experienced nurses in the neurological field what type of advice they can offer a brand new nurse ive only had a pca position on an oncology unit that has been offered a position on a neuro med surg unit. The nurse is caring for clients on a med surg floor. I am having several interviews with med surg ed and pcu. I worked on a neuro med surg floor for 16 months with pt load of up to 7.

I left this floor about 2 1 2 years ago to work on a med surg floor that had everything from cardiac to gi bleeds. Working at med surg is a waste of time hard to get any critical nursing care opportunities. I have returned to neuro 6 months ago. Nurses on my floor med surg have different opinions on this med surg myth.

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