REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS ======================== BLS REQUIRED CLINICAL SKILLS ========================= Medsurg Work Setting Cardiac Monitoring and Emergency Response - use of Rapid Response/Code Teams Gastrointestinal - Colostomy care and management, Feeding Tube care and management IV Therapy/Phlebotomy - Blood Product Admin, Central Line Blood Draw, Peripheral Line Care, Phlebotomy, PICC line management, Starting and Maintaining IVs Medications - Heparin, Insulin, PCA Neurological/Psychiatric - Spinal Cord injuries, Traumatic Brain Injury Ortho - Ortho Trauma, peripheral nerve block catheters, Total joint replacements Respiratory - Chest tubes, Nasal Cannula, Non invasive airway management, Oral suctioning, oxygen admin UNIT DETAILS AND FLOATING ========================== Ratios: 1:5 Patient Population & Unit Details: Orthopedic trauma and general medical-surgical overflow Ortho/Trauma-Med/Surg unit for Level 1 Trauma Center. The hospital features a dedicated neuroscience intensive care unit and provides cutting-edge neurosurgical services such as endovascular and cerebrovascular procedures, functional neurosurgery, neuro-oncology, and skull base surgery.