Otherwise there were no differences between light levels in icu rooms versus non icu rooms.
Difference between general medicine floors and wards.
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Many patients come from the er or are transfers from icu.
The major difference between the two is the patient groups they care for.
Am j manag care.
Lynda is a registered nurse with three years experience on a busy surgical floor in a city hospital.
Surgical wards are generally for care of patients undergoing elective planned surgical procedures and emergency surgical procedures whereas medical is the care.
A t test analysis of the hourly averages revealed only 1 time point of significant difference between the 2 floors.
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.
Emergency department visits for nonurgent conditions.
A report of the task force of the world federation of societies of intensive and critical care medicine.
And patients that are post op from knee replacements will go to the ortho floor.
She graduated with an associates degree in nursing from mercyhurst college northeast in 2007 and lives in erie pennsylvania in the united states.
What is an intensive care unit.
General medicine where i work is essentially the same as med surg except it s mostly patients who are being medically managed rather than surgically.