Icu Vs Floor Nursing

I realize icu nursing takes a great deal of knowledge and the patients are more critical.

Icu vs floor nursing.

A medical surgical nurse can see all types of patients depending on the floor on which she works and she may care for patients. Icu nursing vs floor nursing. Views on floor vs icu nursing. Although it seems rather obvious that the patients in the intensive care unit require more intense care it isn t until you ve actually experienced that intensity that you realise how stressful it can be.

These patients still need a high level of skilled nursing care and surveillance although less so than in an icu but are more stable. 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. Specializes in ltc med surg hospice. Icu nurses feel they have the toughest job because the patient acuity is higher.

Nurses general nursing posted dec 6 2001. I am honestly curious. Specializes in pediatric rehabilitation. Do you think icu nursing is as stressful crazy hectic etc as med surg floor nursing.

On the other end of the spectrum intensive care unit icu nurses treat patients who require the highest acuity of care in a very structured and controlled setting the intensive care unit. The main difference between an icu and a regular hospital floor also sometimes known as medical surgical is the level of care provided. In addition many nurses often switch between day evening and night shifts on a rotating. When icu nurses float to my floor they always tell me how glad they are to be in the icu.

Has 7 years experience. Work shifts range from 8 to 12 hours for both types of nurses but icu nurses are more apt to work 12 hour shifts to provide greater continuity of care. In order to treat the most critical patients in the most thorough manner critical care nurses use their specialized skills and extensive knowledge of. I need an opinion on med surg patient ratio of 8 patient to 1 nurse as opposed to 2 or 3 patients to a nurse.

But often it is an intermediary step between icu and a med surg floor. The nurse to patient ratio would be higher than in an icu but lower than a med surg unit anywhere from 1 to 3 to 1 to 5.