United States specific: The naming system of hospital units or some other standardized indicator of what skill level is actually practiced on that unit.
An ICU should be an ICU, not “Intensive Care Unit” at this hospital, but “Critical Care Unit” at that other hospital and the"Stepdown Unit" here is called “Progressive Care Unit” there, but “Transitional Care Unit” at that other place.
It leads to so much confusion when trying to transfer patients between facilities and/or understand what kind of care they were receiving at a previous admission at a different facility.
United States specific: The naming system of hospital units or some other standardized indicator of what skill level is actually practiced on that unit.
An ICU should be an ICU, not “Intensive Care Unit” at this hospital, but “Critical Care Unit” at that other hospital and the"Stepdown Unit" here is called “Progressive Care Unit” there, but “Transitional Care Unit” at that other place.
It leads to so much confusion when trying to transfer patients between facilities and/or understand what kind of care they were receiving at a previous admission at a different facility.