Trauma Med Surg Floor

Our trauma center is right next to interstate 78 so we get a lot of blunt force trauma.

Trauma med surg floor. Is 3 years experience with trauma med surg enough. Patients are a combination of. We have everything from the trauma doc that see the pt in the ed and follow them til dc. This is just not so in the icu.

Floor units vary widely by name. After graduation i was offered a position on a med surg floor as well a position on a burn trauma step down unit the latter which i accepted. I wish i did lol. It s more like a specialty med surg floor.

I was so nervous giving pain meds when i started and now after only 5 months its like giving out candy. If the pt is a head neuro will also follow etc. I recently was offered an interview on a trauma er med surg unit. Also pain meds pain meds.

I was wondering if anyone had any experiences the. They may be referred to by location such as 7 south which means the south wing of the seventh 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. Patients on the med surg floor.

I did hold a position on a med surg floor prior to leaving the hospital and working in a clinic until now. If we need a medical management on the pt then the critical care doc s are consulted. The davis 11 trauma nursing unit tnu is a 36 bed acute care specialty and telemetry unit that primarily provides inpatient care and treatment for patients who have sustained blunt or penetrating injury as well as those who may require surgical intervention. I work on a floor like that right now at a lvl 1.

Hi im a rn that has been out of the hospital setting for the past 3 years. We do get a lot of chest tubes and frequent pe s relative to a regular med surg floor. For starters learning how to operate the ventilator could take up an entire nursing school class. Our trauma dept is a team of md s and pa s.

And although it wasn t my first choice the burn trauma step down unit became my stepping stone for the emergency department. Med surg nursing requires attention to detail excellent multi tasking skills and a level head under pressure. As the largest branch of nursing care med surg nursing has the widest variety of potential patients and diagnoses. When i applied i was told it was a step down for trauma burn.

So one trauma pt can have trauma neuro ortho and critical care following them. Others may be referred to by specialty such as orthopedics meaning that patients with bone issues are being treated in the area. I graduated a year and a half ago and began my career at a prominent hospital in the dfw area on the trauma med surg floor. You should ask if they do shadow days to get a good picture of what the floor is like.

We get stable trauma burn patients with overflow med surg patients.