Leadership Team:
Nurse Director:
- Matthew Niles, RN, BSN
Associate Nurse Director:
- Diane Best, RN, CCRN
Clinical Nursing:
- Clinical Ladder: CN I - CN IV
- Clinical Coordinators
Support Staffing:
- Unit Secretaries
- Patient Care Assistants
- Care Management
- Respiratory Therapy
- Nutritionist
- Physicians
- Nurse Practationers
- Physicians Assistants
- Residents
- Pharmacy
- PT/OT/Speech Therapy
Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)
The MICU is a 14-bed Medical Intensive Care Unit serving patients with acute and chronic illnesses in which intensive observation and intervention is required. MICU patients benefit from a multidisciplinary approach to care delivery with the collaboration of a specialized team that includes Intensivists, Pulmonologists, Nephrologists, Hospitalists, Registered Nurses, Patient Care Assistants, Unit Secretaries and a large support staff providing quality patient-centered care.
MICU has a strong shared-governance model for leading unit operations. Shared-governance committees include education, peer review, scheduling, retention and recruitment, practice council, quality assurance/performance improvement and a unit-specific PCA and Unit Secretary committee.
New MICU staff members benefit from a nurse preceptor program in which two nurses guide each new member through a 16-week orientation. Continuing education is offered and encouraged.
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Level of Care:
- Types of patients: Acute Respiratory Failure, Acute Renal Failure, GI Bleed, Overdose, Severe Sepsis, and Stroke
- Number of bed on unit: 14
- Average daily census: 12
- Nurse/Patient Ratio: 1:2 based on patient condition
Specialized Unit Technology:
- Equipment: Accudose medication system, Alaris Medley Infusion Pumps, Careview bedside charting, IABP, CRRT, Swans, A-lines, vents, Level I infuser, continuous cardiac output machine, medication administration system (MAK), Baer Hugger, Vigileo & Vigilance FloTrac systems, RotoProne Therapy, Alsius Coolgard.
- Monitors: centralized monitoring, Philips bedside monitors
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