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Jan 27, 2009 04:02 PM

Medical conditions on peds medical floor?

by yawn

Hi. I have a job interview with a head nurse of the peds medical inpatients unit. I would like to know what are the common medical conditions seen on a medical floor for pediatric patients? Thank you very much. I am Graduating in June. I am very excited to specialized in peds.


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from *ac*
Old Jan 27, 2009, 04:07 PM

Default Re: Medical conditions on peds medical floor?
Depends on the hospital, but at mine we have cancer (usually leukemia), sickle cell, RSV, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, Crohn's/IBD, failure to thrive, a variety of kidney issues. Those are the most typical for us.
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from pedirn1
Old Jan 30, 2009, 08:27 PM

Default Re: Medical conditions on peds medical floor?
I work at childrens hospital on the medical floor (although we refer to our floor as the respiratory and infectious disease floor.) We see a lot of RSV, Cystic Fibrosis, respiratory distress/failure (usually after they have been in the PICU and stable for the floor) and pneumonia. Other diagnosis we see a lot of is failure to thrive, sepsis or r/o sepsis, cellulitis, MRSA and VRE.
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from Rach101
Old Feb 01, 2009, 03:15 AM

Default Re: Medical conditions on peds medical floor?
hi! i also work on a paeds medical floor with a mixture of general and infectious disease.
Common respiratory- bronchiolitis, pneumonia, asthma, pertussis, apnoeas
Infectious- gastroenteritis, chicken pox, Tb, tropical diseases eg. typhoid., HIV, MRSA, ESBL, VRE
Skin- eczema, cellulitis, staph scalded skin
Also, seizures, abuse (non accidental injuries), anorexia nervosa, head injuries, ingestion/ severe intoxication, failure to thrive/ feeding issues.
Also kids with syndromes that dont fit under any specific specialty, babies that get kicked out of NICU when they get too 'big' but still have ongoing problems.
And children from other specialties who need isolation rooms- eg. cardiac kids with resp infections, oncology kids with febrile neutropenia, surgical kids with 'superbugs' etc.
And im sure i've forgotten to include lots of our most common conditions! Generally MOST patients are less than 1 year of age but it is variable.
Basically it is a great place to get general experience as a new grad!!! Kids from all over the hospital will come through general paeds and its a nice mix of generally well children with an acute illness and chronic kids that come and go who you get to know really well!
All the best!!!!!!
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