What is the difference between medical and surgical wards?

“What’s the difference between a medical ward and a surgical ward?” Patients on a surgical ward are receiving pre and post-op treatments. Their care can involve surgeons and other kinds of specialists. Patients on a medical ward receive care unrelated to any stage of a surgical procedure.

What do nurses do on a surgical ward?

You will be expected to offer the patient support upon arrival in the post-anaesthetic care unit, and monitor their health and care all the way through until they are back on a general ward. You will also be responsible for assessing whether the patient should be discharged back onto a ward.

What is surgical ward?

The surgical ward takes care of patients with surgical conditions which include laminectomy, craniotomy, septoplasty, appendectomy, hysterectomy, maxillofacial surgery among others. This means operations are very complex and sometimes risky for the patient.

What patients are in surgical ward?

Surgery Ward

• gastric surgery patients (abdomen)
• urological patients (urinary tract)
• orthopaedic patients (bones, ligaments)
• traumatological patients (accidents)

What are the different types of Med Surg units?

Surgical intensive care units (SICUs) which provide care for other surgical patients. Medical intensive care units (MICUs) which provide care for patients with medical conditions who do not require surgery. Long term intensive care units (LTAC ICUs) which provide care for prolonged critical care needs patients.

What is a surgical condition?

Surgical conditions were defined as a disease state requiring the expertise of a surgically trained provider [11]. Thus, surgical patients were defined as those admitted to the surgical ward and any patient admitted to the maternity ward who underwent an operation.

What is a surgical nurse called?

Surgical nurses are also known as perioperative nurses, and work in the OR and with surgery patients before, during, and after their surgery. There are many specific things that a perioperative trained registered nurse will do to help surgeons and nurse practitioners during surgery.

What is the difference between a scrub nurse and a surgical nurse?

Surgical nurses (also called perioperative nurses) have many areas of specialization they can go into—and many different roles they can adopt during an operation. Scrub nurse is one of those roles. Scrub nurses work inside the sterile field of an operating room.