Difference Between General Medicine Floors And Wards

At 7 am the general ward floor had a higher lux level of 49 9 27 5 versus 19 2 10 7 in the icu p 0 038.

Difference between general medicine floors and wards.

Emergency department visits for nonurgent conditions. Our specialty floors like general surgery will still take medical patients pneumonia electrolytes dehydration etc but if for instance we have someone with cholelithiasis come from the er they ll go to the general surgery floor first. What is an intensive care unit. Uscher pines l pines j kellermann a gillen e mehrotra a.

She graduated with an associates degree in nursing from mercyhurst college northeast in 2007 and lives in erie pennsylvania in the united states. A t test analysis of the hourly averages revealed only 1 time point of significant difference between the 2 floors. Marshall jc bosco l adhikari nk et al. And patients that are post op from knee replacements will go to the ortho floor.

Many patients come from the er or are transfers from icu. Otherwise there were no differences between light levels in icu rooms versus non icu rooms. Am j manag care. These floors get everything from cardiac gi respiratory cancer substance abuse psych.

A report of the task force of the world federation of societies of intensive and critical care medicine. Surgical wards are generally for care of patients undergoing elective planned surgical procedures and emergency surgical procedures whereas medical is the care.