Medicine vs Surgery Unit

[Alto22]

What is the difference between the two units in the thehospital?Which is more interesting In your opinion? Which do you think is more fast paced/demanding?

[medventura]

A surgical unit, also referred to as a theatre unit or scrub unit, specializes in preoperative care, providing care to patients before, during and after surgery. To become a theatre unit, Registered Nurses or Enrolled Nurses must complete extra training. There are different speciality areas that theatre units can focus in depending on which areas they are interested in.

The Medical Unit is an inpatient unit that provides quality medical and nursing care. The Unit provides acute care to a patient population that is young adult (age 18) to geriatric. The majority of patients are admitted with gastrointestinal disorders, heart and lung conditions ranging from acute episodes to chronic

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

Nice. I start the beginning of next month. Is it as fast paced as a level One SICU at a teaching hospital?

Probably not, if only because medical doctors ruminate more before doing anything than surgeons do. Ask a cardiologist and a surgeon for a central line, and the surgeon will slap one in while the cardiologist is still considering whether you need one or not. But CCU is very, very interesting. You get the electrophysiology patients with their rhythm disturbances and it can get pretty danged exciting. I loved CCU.