Acute Care Cardiac Unit vs. Cardiac Specialty Unit

you will have to call and ask the nurse recruiter. sometimes I glean info from the hospital's websites as they usually have a little blurb about each unit and what they do.

acute sounds like non icu, maybe stepdown. specialty could be anything.

good luck

Here's the trend I've seen over the past few years when both of these units exist in the same facility.

Cardiac Specialty Unit: I've seen this unit be one of 2 very different things, either: 1) A Cardiac Rehab area, or 2) A PCU/stepdown area.

Acute Care Cardiac Unit: Warning: this job posting can be misleading. "Acute Care Cardiac Unit" often has the hidden meaning: "Acute Care AND Cardiac Unit. You get heart patients, but you also get a diversity of other acute care patients: renal failure, psych, etc. These floors tend to be more "medsurgey" and you see a greater diversity of patient illnesses.

Keep in mind the above is from personal experience; it may be the complete opposite at some facilities, I agree with the above poster about contacting a facility resource to elaborate on the job/patient population specifications.

Best of luck!