Pcu Floor

At a minimum candidates must have an associate s or bachelor s degree in nursing experience on a medical surgical floor and an active nursing license in.

Pcu floor. Work on a pulmonary and acute pcu floor. A progressive care unit pcu is a hospital unit that specializes in treating medical and surgical patients whose needs are not serious enough for the intensive care unit icu but too complex for the regular hospital floor. But unlike many similar units also known as intermediate transitional care or high dependency units the hospitalists goal in improving the unit in 2015 was.

What separate us from a med surg floor is that all our beds have bedside monitors and we do some cardiac drips such as cardizem dopamine and nitro per our hospital policies and protocol and we take care of patients on ventilators that are stable enough to be out of icu. The center for medicare and medicaid services cms defines critical illness or injury is one that acutely impairs one or more vital organ systems in such a way there is a high probability of imminent or life threatening deterioration in the patient s. Diltiazem up to 15mg hr.

Nurses and other care practitioners in the medical surgical field are widely trained across a variety of diseases and illnesses after all they deal with all sorts of conditions that require hospitalizations including recovery from. Due to the high needs patients found in a progressive care unit pcu nurses are generally required to have advanced training and certifications to prepare them for success in critical care. Hi mark there is a difference in nursing and physician care requirements of an icu patient and that of a pcu or intermediate care patient.

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The pcu is available 24 7 to meet the unique needs of patients who are too sick to stay on a regular hospital floor but are not sick enough to require a stay in our icu. The main difference between an icu and a regular hospital floor also sometimes known as medical surgical is the level of care provided. The progressive care unit pcu was designed for patients whose care needs fall between what must be delivered in the icu and what can be handled on most general medical floors.

The patient to nurse ratio is smaller than med surg nursing. The pcu rooms will have more complex monitoring devices and specialized nursing equipment installed. All of these are to a set level and based on set doses no titration.