Preceptorship in Express Unit. What is that?

[oshields07]

For my preceptorship, I requested maternity, since I haven't received a fair amount of time on that unit when I did my clinicals (I worked well baby nursery w/ no babies). I received my preceptorship area today...express unit. What in the world is an express unit? My instructor said it was something about where patients come in and get assessed and go home w/in a couple of hrs. Ummm....I need to come up w/ some objectives for this and have no clue as to what I will be doing. I didn't even know something like this was available b/w the hrs of 7pm-7am (which is what I requested). I'm just wondering if anyone else has ever heard of this? I was looking forward to preceptorship....WAS looking forward

[asfreeasabird]

I have never heard of an express unit. It almost sounds like an area of the emergency department, more stable cases. I would be interested to hear what it is.

[Guest 360983]

Some ERs are split into two parts, one for the big trauma stuff and one for urgent care clinic type stuff. I'm thinking the Express Unit might be what this hospital calls their urgent care area.

[oshields07]

Found out today that Express Unit is an area patients are kept until a bed becomes available in the area they are being admitted into. Still a broad spectrum of different diagnosis, and still unsure of my objectives, but hopefully I won't dread it. :chair:

[ashfost, BSN, RN]

I completely understand how you feel. Wanted ICU sooo bad........got Med-Surg:barf02: Oh well. I guess just make the best of it. Its only for a few weeks. Hope this helps!

[oshields07]

I completely understand. Wow...ICU? I did ICU 1 clinical rotation, and will not do it again. It was probably b/c I had 1 patient and was so bored! I like to move around and do multiple things. I've done med-surg plenty of times! Guess we will both suffer through our preceptorships

[ashfost, BSN, RN]

LOL! Well at least we each have a shoulder to vent to:yeah: Did most of the other students in your class get what they wanted? Or was it all spread out. It seems most of our class got specialty areas (ER, ICU, Peds, etc)

[oshields07]

I'm not sure if everyone else got what they requested. I know the 3 of us who chose the same hospital didn't get the units we signed up for. Last semester we were given a list of hospitals, told to pick 3, the unit we wanted, and the time slots we wanted to work. I believe most ppl in my class chose med-surg.