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Accredited Nurse Residency Program

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The Surgical Acute Care unit is a medical surgical unit with a focus on postoperative care. Scope of service includes continuous cardiac monitoring, continuous oxygen saturations, wound, and drain management. Patients are admitted following surgical procedures via intra-hospital transfer from IMC, ICU, PACU, and as direct admissions through Express Care/Critical Care Resuscitation Unit (CCRU). We coordinate independent care to patients within a clinical specialty as a fully effective participative member of multidisciplinary patient care service team. Nurses working on the Surgical Acute Care unit pride themselves on providing outstanding care.

Unit Highlights

Number of beds: 24

Nurse Patient Ratio: 1:4-1:5

Patient population:
The Surgical Acute Care unit serves as the primary postoperative designation for the following specialty surgical services, including but not limiting to Surgical Oncology, Gynecology Neoplasia, Urology, Acute Care Emergency Surgery, Otolaryngology, Oral Maxillary Facial surgeries, and General Surgery which includes the bariatric surgery patients.

Career opportunities:
Professional Advancement Model

Fun fact:
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