Med/Surg or surgical or post-surgical?? What is the difference??

[Epona]

Hi. I had a quick question. There is a local hospital where I live who is hiring in the Med/Surg // post-surgical unit for new grads. Is post-surgical the same as the surgery unit?? I am confused because the nurse recruiter called it both the post-surgical unit and the surgery unit..... I DO NOT want to work Med/Surg. I am thinking about applying for this position, but don't want to get a surprise if it turns out to be Med/Surg. Can anyone clarify the differences here?? The recruiter confused me.

Thanks!! :)

[chenoaspirit, ASN, RN]

I would ask them.

[Ebostylin]

surgical units are good to work in in my opinion! i'm about to grad from nursing school here in a few months, but have been working as an aide on a surgical unit for the past 3 years. i think it's still considered "med/surg" but at my hospital we didn't have nearly as many medical patients so it wasn't as tough as a normal "med/surg" floor.

so basically the surgical floor is like pre/post op patients, you know like appys, cholecystectomys, you know stuff like that. in and out in a few days. hope that makes sense!

i cringe when i have to float to the regular "med/surg" floor. thats where you find a lot of the elderly patients who end up being total care - hurts the back!

[SummerGarden, BSN, MSN, RN]

you should ask... i do not know if you noticed that the designation of a medical surgical unit has the word "surgical" in the title. so there really is no difference at my hospital. the various ms units are only different in specialty... one unit takes broken bones mostly... others take, renal, cancers, cardiac, gi, etc. only... all the ms units have pre and post op patients, as well as, patients who are not having any surgery at all.

[Epona]

Yes. Thank you everyone. That is what I figured. I was thinking they were probably one-in-the-same which I do not want to work on a Med/Surg floor. So thanks very much for clarifying!!