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Unit Profile – 8B2
Nurse Manager
Clinical Nurse
Supervisor
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Educational Nurse
Coordinator
Brief Description of the
Unit (including patient
populations)
Common Medications
(categories of drugs)
Common Patient
Procedures
Common Unit Practices
Karen Ames (734) 936-5832
Ericka Gess (734) 936-4733
Vicki Averhart
Val Preiser (734) 232-2866
We are a 32 bed general medicine unit with telemetry. We do take care of a wide
variety of patients on our unit. We have Patient Care Techs that we partner with
to take care of our patients. Common diagnosis; pneumonia, COPD, Acute Mental
Status, Syncope, GI bleed, ETOH, pancreatitis, cellulitis and various oncology
diagnosis.
1. Antihypertensive
2. Antibiotics/antifungal/antivirals
3. Insulin
4. Antiarrythmics
5. Inhalers
6. Heparin & Insulin drips & Protonix drips
7. Pain Medication
1. ERCP
2. TEE & TTE
3. Echos
4. Endoscopy (Colon & EGD) and virtual capsule endoscopy
5. Cardiac Caths
6. CT & MRI
1. Rounding Standards
2. Communication Standards (i.e. SBAR)
Common Medical
Diagnoses (primary and
secondary )
Common Precautions
and Safety Measures
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Shift to Shift Rituals
Process and Contacts for calling a Patient Care Conference
GI Bleed
Syncope
Pneumonia
COPD
Hypertension
CHF
Cellulitis
Chest Pain
Pancreatitis
Safety huddles at 0700 & 1900
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Chemo precautions
Purposeful hourly rounding
Contact precautions, protective precautions.