How to describe what I do

[Aeterna, BSN, RN]

Basically, I work on a medical/oncology/palliative unit so, really, we see just about anything unless it's a surgical case (even that's iffy...more on that later). I'm trying to figure out how to describe the wide range of patients we see on our floor. Yeah, we get our onco and palliative patients - that's easy enough to get across - but everything else? That's a bit harder.

We see renal failures, cardiac patients, respiratory patients, bowel obstructions, uncontrolled diabetes, psychiatric patients (mostly depression and/or substance abuse, though nothing like psychosis), stage III and IV wounds, confusion NOS, pain NOS, vomitting NOS, "failure to cope", falls, amputations (I know I said no surgical cases, but for some reason, we've had our fair share of amputation patients)...

It's a pretty long list and I'm stuck on trying to sum it all up in a line or two =/ Help?

[vanburbian]

Medical- seems to encompass all of those diagnoses. Do you monitor on tele?

[Aeterna, BSN, RN]

I agree, but how can I make note of the huge variety we see on our floor? I remember being on a medical floor as a student and it seemed to be mostly CHF and COPD type diagnoses...or perhaps, that was just my "luck" as a student getting such a limited population of hospital patients.

Tele as in telemetry patients? Sometimes yes. We can have none on our unit but we've had up to five or six at a time. It really just depends on who ER sends us =/

[MPKH, BSN, RN]

Can you say something along the lines of "Have experience in providing nursing care to patients with various medical diagnosis"?

[Aeterna, BSN, RN]

Can you say something along the lines of "Have experience in providing nursing care to patients with various medical diagnosis"?

I actually did have something like this written in but then I thought it might sound too generic and thought I'd ask for advice to make it sound detailed yet precise xD

[llg, PhD, RN]

How about something like:

"Provides nursing care on general medical unit that cares for patients with a wide variety of medical diagnoses along with ocassional surgical and psychiatric patients."