How different is Acute Burn Unit for regular Med/Surg floor?

Sunshine, although there will be some similarities med/surg and burns are like Chalk and Cheese.

Burns is all about infection prevention, fluid resuscitation, huge dressings which sometimes require anaesthetic to do, nutrician, and lots and lots of psychological support.

I found that burns nursing let me use every aspect of nursing I had ever learnt and enjoyed every minute

ICU will stand you in good stead, the hardest thing I found was the dressing and managing pain is always a challenge, also things like nutrition is vital, we used to NG tube every burn pateint over a certain percentage.

By the time I finished I could make a whole outfit out of cotton wool roll, the area I worked in was an emergency admissions so we saw the very worst. The burns ward was a good steady pace, we had a theatre attached that we took patients to for dressings and although we went with out patients to the theatre there were plenty of theatre staff to support with the dressings.

It will depend on how your unit is set out and the support structure there

It is an excellent experience, and I loved it.