pacurn60

pacurn60 has 24 years experience and specializes in ER/PACU.

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1. Which comes first: PACU or ICU?

   pacurn60 replied to wannabecnl's topic in PACU

   One of my CPAN (certified post anesthesia nurse) nurses got into CRNA school without ICU experience. He had worked in PACU for 4 years before he decided to go to CRNA school and they accepted his PACU experience as ICU experience but we work with cri...

2. Transition from ED to PACU

   pacurn60 replied to easternshore's topic in PACU

   ER to PACU is a great transition. I Left the ER 12 years ago and have been in PACU since then

3. PACU RN's- what is your visitor policy?

   pacurn60 replied to RN34TX's topic in PACU

   We allow parents of peds. If we are holding for post op beds we usually let 1 or 2 family members at the most for 10-15 minutes. I do have to be a patient family advocate on this somewhat we have some surgeons who forget to talk to the family and inv...

4. Does your OR have to hold til theres a PACU bay??

   pacurn60 replied to PACURN1818's topic in PACU

   I agree with all the posts. Our OR must call and we tell them where to call. There have been times when they forgot to call and there have been no bays and we turn them right around back to the OR. ASPAN is awesome. THey have a clinical practice foru...

5. New to Pacu

   pacurn60 replied to EvanRN123's topic in PACU

   Every PACU nurse I have hired was apprehensive at first but it has been there favorite job. Most PACU nurses never look back. Good luck.

6. New nurse in PACU??

   pacurn60 replied to sungrl01's topic in PACU

   As a charge nurse in PACU (previously ER) I foound that the best transition nurses to PACU were ER or ICU nurses. With that being said I have hired med-surg nurses with no ICU or ER experience. They have done well but they don't go on call for about ...

7. Lingering effects of versed for peds?

   pacurn60 replied to brownbook's topic in PACU

   Interesting thread. As with adults kids act differently. We had 2- 4year old kids have Tymp and tubes both had same anesthesiologist and given same agents. 1 woke up and went home in an hour the other we had for 4 hours because he was wild and incons...

8. Capnography (ETCO2 Monitoring) Do you monitor extubated patients in the PACU w/ it?

   pacurn60 replied to RNiel's topic in PACU

   We do CO2 monitoring on some of our extubated patients. Again our PCA's pumps monitor CO2. We ordered CO2 monitors for 4 of our bays but it is sometimes hard to know what patients will need CO2 monitoring. We put it on any patients suspected of CO2 r...

9. Tell me more about PACU nursing

   pacurn60 replied to jcurlygirl's topic in PACU

   I have worked PACU for 12 years. I came from the ER which I truly loved but hated everyother weekend and working holidays. I then started floating to the PACU and finally took the step and never looked back. I have been a charge nurse in PACU for 9 y...