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1. Infant CPR while holding the baby on your arm...What?

   PACUed replied to everthesame's topic in General Nursing

   According to AHA the infant (1 year or less) should be placed on a firm, flat surface to perform compressions, but when they talk about activating the emergency response system the AHA states: "If you are alone, after 5 cycles of CPR activate the EMS...

2. Anterior cervical spine recovery

   PACUed replied to nurseJudy56's topic in PACU

   As the other posts stated they can be somewhat of a chalenge with pain control post op as many neck and back patients have been on po pain meds for quite a while. As far as bad outcomes we do not see this as a rule with our patients. Most are very st...

3. compuer documentation

   PACUed posted a topic in PACU

   We are going live with Cerner computer documentation in a couple of weeks. We currently chart our assessments every 30 min. When we go live with the computer documentation some staff are saying that they are only going to chart their initial assessme...

4. Am I Being Unrealistic?

   PACUed replied to pcbnurse's topic in PACU

   Although not quite that bad I worked at a hospital that had the same mind set "it's the way we have always done it". It is amazing what you will get used to. It took a long time of hating my job and comming home and beating on a punching bag to get o...

5. PACU- educational requirements

   PACUed replied to TLC-JAX CRNA's topic in PACU

   I work as 50% staff and 50% education coordinator in the PACU. When hiring people for PACU it used to be you had to have at least a year of floor nursing under your belt but in these days the the nursing shortage has forced units like PACU and ICUs t...