Leadership Team:
Nurse Director:
- William Edgar, RN, BSN
Medical Director:
- Dr. McGovern
Clinical Nursing:
- Clinical Ladder: CN I - CN IV
Support Staffing:
- Unit Secretaries
- Patient Care Assistants
- Respiratory Therapy
- Care Management
Transitional Care Unit (TCU)
The Transitional Care Unit (TCU) opened at Hamot in September 2005. The TCU functions as a step-down unit, caring for patients who meet specific criteria. The unit accepts patients who are sixteen years of age and older and serves a variety of patient populations.
The TCU is a 12-bed unit with all the beds equipped with telemetry. Four of the twelve rooms have bedside telemetry and mechanical ventilators.
The TCU is staffed with a ratio of three patients for each nurse. New TCU staff members benefit from a nurse preceptor program in which each nurse is guided through a 12-week orientation. Continuing education is offered and encouraged.
TCU utilizes a shared governance model of leadership. Shared governance is a philosophy that empowers each staff member to help in the decision-making process. The committees in TCU consist of: Practice Council, Peer Review, Retention and Recruitment, Quality Assurance, Scheduling and PCA.
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Level of Care:
- Types of patients: stable vents, MI’s, GI bleeds,
- COPD
- Number of beds on unit: 12
- Nurse/Patient Ratio 1:3
Specialized Unit Technology:
- Equipment: Ventilators, Alaris Medley
- Infusion Pumps, MAK Medication Administration
- Monitors: Remote monitored rooms, Hard wire monitored rooms with Head Wall units similar to ICU.
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