Total patient care includes assessment and planning. Direct care is provided by registered nurses, hospital assistants, and lab mechanicians in collaboration with surgical and anesthesia physicians and their support staff. Nursing care is focused on airway management, pain control and comfort measures, total assessment, hemodynamic monitoring, and post-op teaching and discharge instructions. University Women's Pavilion and Normal Newborn Nursery . The Women's Pavilion is a 24 bed unit which consists of antepartum, postpartum, gynecology and female urology patients.
Infants remain in their mothers' rooms after their initial assessment and bath.
The Vascular and GI Surgeries Unit has 36 beds and manages the care of adult patients who have had vascular or gastroenterologic surgery. Vascular procedures include abdominal aortic aneurysm, bypass surgery, femoral-popliteal bypass surgery, amputations, and creation of wound flaps. GI patients have abdominal surgery such as pancreatectomy, cholecystectomy, colectomy, bowel resection and gastric bypass surgery for weight loss. Plastic surgery patients who have had a wound debridement, flap rotation or various reconstructive surgeries are also admitted to this unit.