General and intermediate medical/surgical inpatient unit, with a specialty in transplant and genetic and metabolic diseases. Provide care for medical/surgical patients varying by specialty, age day one of life to 22 years. This unit also specializes in inpatient clinical research for children from across the United States and around the world who are participating in physician- and nurse-initiated patient-oriented research.
Patient Population
- Newborn to adolescent; Medical diagnoses include trauma, pneumonia, asthma, sickle cell crisis, seizure disorders, cancer; Surgical diagnoses include general, neurologic, cardiac, and plastic
Number of Beds
- 20
Nurse/Patient Ratio
- 1:3
New Grad RN Orientation Length
- 12 weeks
- New-grad Nurse Residency Program - PEDS Track with post-orientation mentoring
Rotations
- 12 hours, day/night rotations
- Flexible, self-schedule
Skill Mix
- All RN staff, 95 percent BSN-prepared, 25 percent CPN certified