Med-Surg Roll Call

Specialties Med-Surg

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Hi all ... thought it was about time to have a Med-Surg roll call .... please repond by telling us if you work in med-surg .... how long you have been there and if you plan on staying in med surg .... also, please let us know if you hold certification in med-surg through ANCC or AMSN. Thanks ....

I will start ....

I am a nurse manager for a 40 bed med-surg unit. Love med-surg, but am challenged daily by how busy the unit is and how sick our patient population is. I plan on remaining in med-surg for a number of years (at least until I finish my Masters degree and start teaching). I am not currently certified, but am planning on taking the test in October throught AMSN.

I think the thing I LOVE the most about M/S is the diversity of patients we see. You really need to be a nursing generalist to be successful in med-surg.

Specializes in Med-Surg, mostly.

Hey all you crazy Med-Surg Nurses!!!

I have been a Med-Surg nurse for 12 years now, and am probably something of an oddity, because all 12 years have been at one place!

I work every Fri, Sat and Sun...started that when the kids were little so no babysitters...and now it's a habit.

I'm also qweekend charge nurse..yippee..of our 48 bed unit.

I can't help it, I love my hospital! Sure it has had it's, lets say, "moments", but it's home to me!

Kinda makes you sick, right!:barf01:

I plan on getting my M/S certification...sometime soon...not in any hurry...

So, :cheers: to All The Wonderful Med-Surg Nurses Who Do A Wonderful Job Out There!!!

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Specializes in Med-Surg, ED, Home.

i started post passing the nursing board exam in the Philippines in the Med-Surg unit...we were usually rotated in all the departments there as part of the training of being a well-rounded nurse...but most oft the time, i was assigned at the Med-Surg dept...when i came to the US, i was also in the Med-Surg unit...then i went ED, to broaden my exposure...after a year and a half of vacation from the nursing field, i thought i'm still a fast ED nurse...alas, my docs said restart with Med-Surg.....yes, i'll follow them...i'll go back to Med-Surg where i learned the most to be a a person that gives TLC: a nurse

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Specializes in Med-Surg, ED, Home.

CONGRATULATIONS, NYNURSE07!!!!!!!you're on your 3rd day of orientation.......

me, i'll meet and talk to the Med-Surg director on Sept. 4, Tuesday. i was rehired in the ER but just like you, we (me, ED director, occ. health doc, neuro, PCP, psychologist) need to restart in the Med-Surg dept. and crawl back up to the ED again....i tell you, other Med-Surg nurses i know keep on discouraging me to go back there coz they said it's tougher...well, where can you find lighter load of patients? ....

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Specializes in ICU.

I'm on my 2nd week post orientation, working on an oncology/medsurg floor. It's been wild. I've had a couple days where I didn't take lunch and still ended up punching out an hour overtime. I love the patients (well most of them) and the variety of conditions. Maintaining quality of care with 6 patients is tough for me. But I figure everyone else on the floor is in the same boat and I'm still learning. I'm sticking with medsurg for at least a year before contemplating anything else.

Cheers,

Dave

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I have worked for 22 years on a med/surg unit. I love it. I cannot think of any other area I would consider working. I love the fact that I don't have the machines telling me what is going on with my patients. I love keeping my critical thinking skills in tune as well as my gut.

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Specializes in med surg,telemetry, Psych, ICU.

i have worked med/surg for four years and recently our hospital added remote telemetry to our unit..it's a challenge to learn all the heart rhythms but i look at it as opening the field if i ever decide to change...my nurse manager would like me to venture into peds, which we have on one end of our floor as well, and maybe next year i will. Of course, that means PALS, and more schooling...oh well, we must keep learning...

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.

i'm an rn on a 37-bed medical-surgical floor (9 private rooms, 14 semi-private) in a small hospital in an inner city. we're the designated surgical floor, but because there aren't many or cases (we have a rather large sister campus in a suburban area that has several ors) it's about half and half with medical patients.

what i enjoy the most is our staff. i've been here for a year (after a year of perioperative sne-ing) and my co-workers are what has kept me here. i do like that i see a lot and practice skills that otherwise would be dead to me. because of our diverse patient population, and our urban locale, i see everything from in-patient hospice cases to colostomy reversals, asthma exacerbation to face lifts. however, i don't intend on staying here forever. i do enjoy it but i feel ridiculously burned out sometimes.

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Specializes in med-surg/Tele.

I am a recent grad working in a very busy 145 bed hosp in the Progressive Care Unit (med-Surg Tele). This is a second career for me but I plan staying on this unit until my knees give out then do Case Management on the floor while I obtain my MSN so I can teach others the caring, compassionate side of nursing.

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Specializes in Medical-Oncology.

I am working on a 24-room, 40-bed capacity medical-oncology unit in Southern California. I have been a RN on this unit for almost 7 months. The patient acuity has been steadily increasing over that time and many of our experienced RNs are leaving our floor. As a result, I am beginning to get the reputation as one of the "experienced" RNs on our floor. It's the only kind of nursing I know, so I have no plans to leave right now.

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I am a Med/Surg RN with a ASN degree. I have been in this specialty for 4 1/2 yrs. I do not hold any certifications. I plan on going back for my bachelors and Masters degree. I am currently working in a 46 bed Med/Surg/Ortho unit, kind of getting burnt out. Med/Surg is a good place for new grads to start out to develop there nursing skills, but I feel it's time for a change. Don't know when I will make that change, but I am staying hopeful. It's to demanding and stressful working in Med/surg. I personally call Med/Surg the "dump unit," everything gets dumped on us. Until I make that change I am in Med/Surg the most demanding place in the hospital aside from ICU

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Specializes in Med-surg, homehealth, and hospice.

I have been a nurse since 1990 and started out in Med-Surg, thought I needed a change and went to Home Care/Hospice. I returned to the hospital about a year later, and my med surg manager, said see I told you you were a med-surg nurse. I am still here and don't know where else I would go, I know that other departments sometimes look better, or an easier place to work but I would really miss this work. I am currently the charge nurse on days as well as wearing the hat of UBE. Being the UBE gives me a bit of a break of the daily stress on the floor and enjoy teaching and working with the newer people on a closer basis (not being their boss that day).

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Specializes in Med/surg.

I graduated (ASN) last may Started My first MED/SURG position in July and I love it. I plan on working M/S for a few years and then prusuing a position in maturnity Maybe I never thought I would enjoy M/S so much. When I graduated my thought was to work M/S for a few years and then move on to L&D or postpartum. But now not sure????

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