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Job interview next week!!!

As some of you know, I've detailed much of my struggle within the ICU and my frustrations. So I finally got up the courage to finally make the move to move on. I will miss the traumas and the interesting cases but I need something new and a bit different so I decided to apply for the PACU.

I need to come up with a list of questions to ask the RN who will be showing me around the pacu. Can anyone offer some suggestions of what to ask?

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    Good Luck I hope you get it!!:yeah:

    1) Whats the pt/nurse ratio?

    2) Does your PACU have peds pts?

    I don't know if you should ask this or not but when I was a student I was in a PACU @ trauma I facility that allowed the pts to have visitors in the PACU & they took pedi pts but no PICU pts & no skin grafts of any kind. Skin graft pts went back to burn ICU. Thought the visitation was a little unusual & I never saw that in another facility but then again I'm not a PACU nurse so maybe that is more common then what I'm thinking.

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    Thanks. What should I say when they ask me why I want to leave my current position? I was planning on saying that I wanted to get experience in a different area of nursing or something to that effect.

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    Ask about the hours and call requirements.

    My hospital's PACU nurses do not work 7-7. They work mostly when post-op "traffic" is heaviest.

    There are some odd shifts with start times of 11am or 1pm and 10 hour shifts.

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    Ask about the hours and call requirements.

    My hospital's PACU nurses do not work 7-7. They work mostly when post-op "traffic" is heaviest.

    There are some odd shifts with start times of 11am or 1pm and 10 hour shifts.

    Thanks, I actually spoke with the manager already to set up the interview. I got the hours, the weekend hours and the call hours. It's not a bad deal. It's two twelves and two eights, days. I'm excited, I'm just hoping I can get this job. I need a change superbad.

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