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Leadership Team

Nurse Director:

  • Darleen Rihel, RN, BSN

Associate Nurse Director:

  • Sheila Adamus RN

Clinical Nursing:

  • Clinical Ladder: CN I – CN IV

Support Staffing:

  • Unit Secretaries
  • Patient Care Assistants
  • Care Managers

3 South Inpatient

3 South Inpatient serves a diverse population, including neurosurgery, colon/rectal, urology, plastic surgery, general surgery and low-risk chest pain patients, and infusion patients on weekends.

3 South offers “closed unit staffing,” a model that has been well received by the unit’s nursing staff.

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Level of Care:

  • Types of patients: Medical/Surgical, a little bit of several different specialties
    • (Infusions (weekend), Low risk CP, plastics, general surgery, neurosurgery, urology, colon/rectal)
  • Number of Beds on Unit: 24
  • Average daily census: 22
  • Nurse – patient ratio: 1:5 on days/evenings, 1:5 or 1:6 on nights

Specialized Unit Technology:

  • Equipment: Patient Controlled Analgesia Pumps, Alaris pumps, Pulse oximetry, Medication Administration Check System, Epidura/pumps wound vacs

Advanced ‘Intranet’ Resources:

  • Nursing policy and procedures
  • Mandatory education self learning tools
  • Physician order sets
  • Micromedex
  • Material Safety Data Sheet
  • Discharge instructions: preprinted
  • Pharmacy resources
  • Human Resource information
  • Peer evaluations

Committees:

  • Retention and Recruitment
  • Safety
  • Quality Assurance
  • Peer Review
  • Education
  • Magnate Councils

Orientation:

  • 8-week orientation
  • Shadowing in specialty areas

Scheduling Options:

  • 8 and 12-hour shifts: Flexible scheduling

Educational Opportunities:

  • Mandatory Madness
  • Morbidity & mortality Rounds
  • Lunch and Learns
  • Med/Surg Course
  • Arrhythmia Courses
  • ACLS
  • BLS
  • Continuing Education Units
  • Annual Conferences

Recruitment Opportunities:

  • Student Nurse Intern Program
  • Student nurse to Patient Care Assistant
  • Patient Care Assistant Sitters
  • Nurse Assistant Training Program
  • Shadowing Experience