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.
Difference between general medicine floors and wards.
A report of the task force of the world federation of societies of intensive and critical care medicine.
The major difference between the two is the patient groups they care for.
A t test analysis of the hourly averages revealed only 1 time point of significant difference between the 2 floors.
What is an intensive care unit.
Otherwise there were no differences between light levels in icu rooms versus non icu rooms.
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She graduated with an associates degree in nursing from mercyhurst college northeast in 2007 and lives in erie pennsylvania in the united states.
Our specialty floors like general surgery will still take medical patients pneumonia electrolytes dehydration etc but if for instance we have someone with cholelithiasis come from the er they ll go to the general surgery floor first.
These floors get everything from cardiac gi respiratory cancer substance abuse psych.
Emergency department visits for nonurgent conditions.
Surgical wards are generally for care of patients undergoing elective planned surgical procedures and emergency surgical procedures whereas medical is the care.
And patients that are post op from knee replacements will go to the ortho floor.
Lynda is a registered nurse with three years experience on a busy surgical floor in a city hospital.