Critical Care Nursing

The link from the ER or OR, these nurses rely on continuous assessment to detect changes in the baseline requiring interventions. Decisive and confident, critical care nurses work with every specialty in the hospital in an arena of high technology coupled with care and education of patients and families.

Critical care is for patients who require continuous cardiac monitoring and ongoing assessments and interventions – due to risks of arrhythmias, hemodynamic instability, or respiratory compromise.  The population includes patients with cardiac, respiratory, surgical, medical and neurological illnesses. 

Intensive Care

• Number of Beds: 4
• Type of Patients: medicine, surgical, cardiac, renal, respiratory, neurological, sepsis, diabetes
• Clinical make-up: RNs, and unit desk clerks 
• Shift availability: 8-hour shifts, 12-hour shifts
• Programs/Councils unique to unit: Unit Practice Council