Not sick enough for ICU, critical care unit, not well enough for regular med-surg unit.
one step down from ICU one step up from medical surgical unit. Not critical but almost.
I work on an intermediate care unit. At my hospital it’s a stepdown unit, one step below ICU and a step above a telemetry floor.
he Intermediate Care Units (UCIM) are hospital areas with sufficient technical and human resources to provide surveillance and care with a lower level than Intensive Care Units (ICU), but much higher than conventional hospitalization areas.
The one I worked was definitely ICU patients who could manage on our unit. Only thing we didn’t have was levophed we even had intubated patients as long as a trach was in place not ETT. Insulin gtts some every 30 minute checks etc.
acute care patients who are medically stable but too unstable to be treated in a outpatient setting ie… at home.
It's a unit that can either go up or low depending on the response of the pt.
An intermediate care unit is a progressive care unit, when patients in the ICU no longer require critical care nursing care services, but are not quite ready to transfer to a general care unit, such as a medical-surgical nursing care area . . . an example of such unit can be a telemetry care unit, which promotes ongoing observation of people with cardiac dysfunction or problems associated with the circulatory system . . .
for patients who need 24-hour nursing observation
STEP DOWN- TELEMETRY UNIT
