Med Surg Week! Help!

[Spring152]

Med Surg week is next month and I am on a committee to design a poster to display what med surg nurses do. I am stumped on what to put on this poster or how to arrange in a professional way. Any ideas? Thanks for any help!

[nursemary9, BSN, RN]

Ah................EVERYTHING?????????????????????????????

Hard to limit what we do.

Meds, assessments, critical thinking, decisions,prioritize................

[RN1989]

How about taking pictures of the staff at work? Have staff dress up in hospital gown if you need a pt in the pic. Nurses at med cart/room, nurses on phone, nurse with stethoscope listening to lung sounds, arm with nurse's hands about to start IV on arm, taking BP, nurse at computer, nurse making bed... the list goes on. Then, it is even more personalized because it is YOUR nurses.

[dekatn]

I don't think they make poster board that big!!!!! lol I like RN1989's ideas. If I think of anything that might help I'll let you know. Good luck and what a neat idea.

[NursingAgainstdaOdds]

I like the idea of taking pictures of your unit's nurses in action. You can also supplement with text which describes what med-surg nurses do. Maybe you could get some stats from your hospital's PI department regarding how the med-surg unit is important to the hospital as a whole ("x% of patients who are admitted to Y hospital come to the med-surg unit"..."X% of Y unit's nurses have more than one degree/certification/whathaveyou").

Also, you can work with Kinko's or Staples or a similar printer/copy store to have your poster printed-up very professionally and very BIG. :)

[HealthyRN]

The picture idea sounds great. You could put a few poster boards together and make it bigger if you need to.

You could also interview some of your co-workers and let them describe what med-surg nurses do. You could arrange the quotes around the pictures. Maybe you could interview some patients (preferably pleasant ones with nice things to say) and explain the project to them. You could have a few give their perspective on what nurses do and add this to the poster under a heading, such as "A Patient's View" or "Touching Patient's Lives". Or something like that. After all, the patients are the reason for our work.