What is med/surg?

[ArkansasFan]

What is it, and why do people advocate it for new graduates?

[qtpy--5]

What is it, and why do people advocate it for new graduates?

Starting on a med/surg floor gives you the opportunity to exeperience all avenues of patient care, from TURPs pneuminia, DKA, CBI's to sickle cell, etc... as you can see a large variety of medicine. First hand knowledge is the key.

[qtpy--5]

Starting on a med/surg floor gives you the opportunity to exeperience all avenues of patient care, from TURPs pneuminia, DKA, CBI's to sickle cell, etc... as you can see a large variety of medicine. First hand knowledge is the key.

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[Penny_Cillin]

Imo, med surg = Hell.

[oncrn17]

I call it med/surg/garbage because you experience a little bit of everything which prepares you for your nursing career. I wouldn't do anything else, but some of my friends only want peds, ER, OR, L&D, which limits their potential (in my eyes!) Of course, they don't understand why I love med/surg so much, either!

[CarlosHills]

A med-surge nursing unit would be defined as any inpatient unit in which just about all of the basic skills that you learned in nursing school are put to the test. On a med-surge unit you are likely to insert foley catheters, change all different kinds of dressings, give lots of different types of medications, do lots of charting, admit patients, discharge patients. For more information you may get help from here http://www.thedegreeexperts.com/dg-s...dical-113.aspx

[medicaltransportflorida]

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MedSurg Nursing,means The Journal of Adult Health, is the official journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN). The magazine offers its readers multidisciplinary clinical information they need to deliver excellent patient care and improve nursing practice. MedSurg Nursing supports adult health / medical-surgical nurses in their pursuit of quality in patient care, private practices and outpatient care in urban, suburban and rural areas. Each edition of the peer-reviewed MedSurg Nursing offers a comprehensive review and description of these clinical problems in adult education, healthcare / medical-surgical nursing. MedSurg Nursing and AMSN is committed to promoting adult health / nursing practice medicine and surgery.

[surgRN]

It is good for new grads to start out on a Med/Surg unit to utilize their skills, and the huge variety of patients you will care for is amazing! You will use EVERY skill you learned in school as well as how to chart it exceptionally! I think every nurse needs to start on med/surg to get their feet wet and figure out what area of nursing they want to go into...and who knows you might just fall in love with it!

[MarieAnderson]

There are lots of challenge in med surg areas. Choosing this one is tough too.

[kinkyhair]

I couldn't agree more. Starting out in med/surg as a new grad is the best thing you can do for yourself. On that unit you encounter patients with acute and chronic illnesses. You learn so much more about different diseases, their processes and treatment. You get better at assessing your patients and learn to head off any potential problems. You eventually get better at time management, something that most new nurses struggle with. Your confidence level increases because you get an opportunity to utilize just about all of the skills you learned in school, and then some. You are considered a novice or maybe a competent nurse the first year out of school. You're very much task oriented that year, and the best place to improve your competence is on a med/surg floor.

A colleague of mine went directly to ICU nursing as a new grad. He later said to me that he wished he had started out in med/surg first. Because of the direction he chose, he had to learn everything about med/surg and ICU at the same time, and his anxiety level was at a constant high. ICU nursing, or any other nursing, builds on the knowledge you gain from working on a medical surgical floor. I've heard lots of nurses say it makes no difference where you work first. Quite honestly, it doesn't matter what area of nursing you end up, med/surg should still be your first choice as those assessment skills you've improved on will be of good use to you wherever you go. I went in psych nursing right out of school, and if I had to do it all over, I would go into med/surg first. I missed so many warning signs those first two years, particularly those of my drug and alcohol patients because I was inexperienced. If I go back into psych nursing now I would be better at.

[pacunurse2216]

Hello Arkansas! I graduated from North Arkansas College with an ADN and received my BSN through Chamberlain College of Nursing in Missouri. Med surg is an excellent area to obtain general experience. You will be exposed to all typoes of nursing care and work with a wide array of diagnosis which in turn will assist you in learning about different disease processes and the care associated with them.

[victoriani]

Med surg is spread on more levels of medicine,thats why this is good

[caera]

What is it, and why do people advocate it for new graduates?

Medical-surgical nursing is the foundation of nursing practice. It is a specialized field now. Medical-surgical nurse cares for the adult patient in many terms like in care unit, ambulatory care, home health care, long-term-care etc.
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