Med Surg Ortho Surg Floor

Hopefully it is somewhat interesting.

Med surg ortho surg floor.

Patients with orthopedic conditions run the gamut from healthy young trauma patients to elderly men and women with a host of other medical conditions so you will care for all types of patients and learn about numerous medical conditions in addition to. However my questions are will this count towards those first one or two years of med surg everyone says i should have. The manager explained to me that the patients would be the ones who were stable enough to leave the icu. Sorry for the shambles and rambles but it seemed like a good place to vent best of wishes to all that read this.

Im a new grad and i have been offered a job on a trauma floor at a level 1 trauma hospital. While i disliked general med surg i found ortho to be fairly interesting and challenging. I am more than ecstatic about actually having a job especially in this market. The nurse manager when orienting new volunteers emphasizes the fact that the patients are all in lots of pain mostly coming out of hip and knee.

Med surg nursing requires attention to detail excellent multi tasking skills and a level head under pressure. Patients on the med surg floor. As the largest branch of nursing care med surg nursing has the widest variety of potential patients and diagnoses. I m still a pre nursing student so i know this won t be extremely helpful for you but i volunteer on an orthopedic med surg unit and have a little bit of a concept of what s unique to ortho.

It s also often the first nursing job and nurse has out of school.