Inpatient

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Inpatients are currently cared for on the 4th floor at Shands Children's Hospital at UF. Three physician teams are assigned to the care of inpatients and are made up of senior residents, interns and medical students. There is a separate Hematology/Oncology team and all other subspecialty admissions are divided between the two remaining teams to allow each team to focus and interact more closely with the represented patient population and attendings. General pediatric patients are divided between the two subspecialty teams and cared for under the guidance of a general pediatric attending physician. An intern averages one admission per off-call day and two to five admissions on short-call or on weekends.

Newborn Nursery

Over 4,240 infants are delivered annually at our institution. During the Newborn Nursery rotation at Shands UF, residents have the opportunity to care for newborns as well as educate parents in areas such as breastfeeding practices and preventative health care. A first-year resident is responsible for the newborn nursery and is supervised by a second-year resident and a General Pediatrics faculty member.

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Shands UF was completely renovated and expanded in 2004. It is a state-of-the-art facility comprised of a 30 bed full-service level III-IV unit and a 30 bed neonatal step-down unit. The step-down unit houses the healthy premature infants and other infants transferred from level III as their condition stabilizes. In these two units, residents are exposed to the full range of medical and surgical disorders of premature and term newborns as well as to the latest technological modalities including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Two first-year residents, one second-year resident, and one third-year resident are given responsibilities in primary patient care in the NICU. Neonatology faculty and fellows are also present twenty-four hours a day for teaching, supervision, and consultation.

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Patients with complex conditions are cared for in the Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) a 24 bed unit located at Shands UF. The PICU provides residents with valuable experience in invasive cardiovascular monitoring, complex fluid management, ventilatory assistance, critical postoperative management, and all other areas of pediatric intensive care. The care team includes second and third year pediatric residents and the call schedule is every fourth to fifth night. Pediatric critical care faculty and fellows supervise residents.

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