Many nurses start their nursing career in med surg acquire excellent clinical skills and then move on to other specialized areas.
A med surg floor.
I ve been working on a med surg floor since last may.
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.
You shouldn t know everything when you start this job no one does.
A floor unit in a hospital is where you re cared for when you don t require especially close monitoring.
Medical surgical nurses aka med surg nurses work in a variety of clinical settings and their work supports many patients post surgery or in a general medicine unit.
Med surg nursing requires attention to detail excellent multi tasking skills and a level head under pressure.
Others like myself enjoy the myriad of medical conditions on the med surg floor and thrive in that environment.
We get pneumonia patients gi bleeds fractures dialysis patients diabetics.
Some hospitals funnel patients from the er up into the med surg unit so this provides a lot of variety and a guarantee that you ll never experience the same day twice as a med surg.
Med surg nursing final thoughts.
The thins that i do during my shift overnights are taking and charting vital signs change patients that need to be changed answer call bells help patients to and from bathroom emptying foleys drains ng canisters and colostomies measuring and recording them.
Core curriculum for medical surgical nursing.
The safest and most successful med surg nurses are the ones who can admit when they re wrong or don t know something are open to trying new things hearing feedback and just trying to do a good job.
Shared one med surg lpn who works in a small hospital we only have one floor for med surg so we get a wide variety of patients from myocardial infarction and strokes to post ops and chemotherapy and detox patients.
Nurses in these units may have higher patient to nurse ratios as well.
As the largest branch of nursing care med surg nursing has the widest variety of potential patients and diagnoses.
The floor mostly consists of surgical patients with medical mixed in.
While hard data is difficult to extract nurses may start with finishing their bsn degree for a general boost in salary.
Patients on the med surg floor.
It can be difficult to keep our sparks burning bright but amsn president robin hertel and some special med surg rns commit to being your spark when you need it.
It s also often the first nursing job and nurse has out of school.
As with any nursing specialty salary is dependent on a nurse s location experience education and relevant certifications.
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.
