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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 Outpatient

3 South Outpatient serves a diverse population of both inpatient and outpatient procedures. The unit cares for and pre-ops many surgery patients including pacemakers, mastectomies and podiatry. They also care for many outpatient procedures including but not limited to cardiac catherizations, interventional radiology patients, EPS, and a wide variety of outpatient general surgery, orthopedic, GYN and plastic surgery.

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Level of Care:

  • Types of patients: pre and post operative patients, pre and post procedure, transfusion and infusions
  • 24 beds
  • Average census 23
  • Ratios 1:5
  • Monday-Friday schedule, No weekends, No holidays

Specialized Unit Technology:

  • Alaris Pump, Pulse Oximetry, Medication administration check system, computer documentation

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
  • Magnet Councils

Orientation:

  • 6-8 week orientation
  • Shadowing in specialty areas

Scheduling Options:

  • 10 hour shifts
  • Hours of operation: 5:30 am - 9:00 pm

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