shellabelle

shellabelle specializes in PACU.

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1. Division of Phase 1 & 2 PACU need answers

   shellabelle replied to Yeehah's topic in PACU

   Yes. I work in a hospital that does general, pediatric, and women's surgeries.

2. Division of Phase 1 & 2 PACU need answers

   shellabelle replied to Yeehah's topic in PACU

   Most of the patients that have light/conscious sedation or just local anesthesia(such as a carpal tunnel release) bypass ph. I. The rest of our Ph. II patients are people who have recovered from "heavier" forms of sedation. We do not have a separa...

3. Anterior cervical spine recovery

   shellabelle replied to nurseJudy56's topic in PACU

   love those!

4. When is a gurney unacceptable?

   shellabelle replied to linda2097's topic in PACU

   any joint replacement, spinal surgery, open belly surgery(minus open appy), crani, or large patients should come out on a bed. any kind of hip surgery(even closed reductions) should come out on a bed. any patient that will be discharged or patients ...

5. Does your PACU recover general anesthesia c-sections?

   shellabelle replied to Judycpan's topic in PACU

   We recover all women's surgeries except for breast augmentations. This includes general or spinal c-sections, D&C, LEEP, PPTL, hysterectomy, breast reductions, and a smattering of other surgeries. The only postpartal patients L&D recovers a...

6. all PACU RNs Wrote up!

   shellabelle replied to jrgrad1912's topic in PACU

   Our MDs write in their orders, To PACU, then admit to floor/day surgery or write a D/C order when we discharge from PACU. We also have a PACU Protocol that has orders for pain meds, nausea meds, oxygen, and says at the bottom DISCHARGE FROM PACU WHE...

7. Anterior cervical spine recovery

   shellabelle replied to nurseJudy56's topic in PACU

   We recover alot of ACDF pts in my PACU. I have personally only seen 2 "go bad" and have to return to surgery for bleeding puposes. These were both in a short period of time, and the doctor stopped prescribing Toradol as a result. We have not had a...

8. Is PACU area for new grads?

   shellabelle replied to playbanjogood's topic in PACU

   I started in PACU as a new grad, and did fine, but it is not for everyone. You need to be able to work in a high paced, high stress environment and MUST BE TEACHABLE. It is not a place for people who get stressed easily and do not pick up on things...

9. You might be a PACU nurse if...

   shellabelle replied to mustanggirl's topic in PACU

   i swear, a class in crna school has to be Tangling Lines 101, and when they get bored with their magazines/sudoku/crossword puzzles, they try to invent new and more interesting knots.

10. Division of Phase 1 & 2 PACU need answers

    shellabelle replied to Yeehah's topic in PACU

    My unit is a phase I unit with a phase II unit in a separate area of the hospital. We generally recover all surgical patients except for those only requiring sedation analgesia. We also recover non-surgical patients that require general anesthesia,...