pacuvanessa

pacuvanessa has 28 years experience and specializes in critical care, pain management, pacu.

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

   pacuvanessa replied to mustanggirl's topic in PACU

   You can tell by the amount of words per minute your pt speaks, how much pain medication will be required.

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

   pacuvanessa replied to mustanggirl's topic in PACU

   this has happened to you at least once a day : Your CRNA says "I gave him enough, he won't need anything for a while" and you've got the narcotics in your hand just waiting for your patient to get the oral airway out and start screaming in pain as t...

3. New Joint Commission Regulations for PACU Medications

   pacuvanessa replied to nmred's topic in PACU

   I know I'm not the only one out there reading these posts and getting so mad my head's spinning!!!:mad: Doesn't JCAHO or anyone like that read stuff like this and think about all this time we are LEAVING our patient's bedsides to go get doctors, get ...

4. PACU orders

   pacuvanessa replied to nrsman1's topic in PACU

   Ours are Morphine 10mg IM (up to 1/3 may be given IV), then if not successful, may give dilaudid 0.5 mg IV every 10 minutes up to total 2mg Demerol 12.5 mg IV (for shivering ONLY!!!) and may repeat x 1 All these orders are stated to be for adults ov...

5. New nurse in PACU??

   pacuvanessa replied to sungrl01's topic in PACU

   I'm a seasoned PACU nurse with ICU experience and have seen nurses with and without ICU experience come and both caN do well, most depends on the person learning and the nurses doing the teaching. But, a lot depends on the PACU you are working in al...

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

   pacuvanessa replied to PACURN1818's topic in PACU

   I work in a 17 bed PACU and we have OR hold patients frequently. We hold by our standards of PACU nurses not being able to take care of any more than 2 patients at a time and 1 ICU patient (unless really stable). If all our nurses have 2 patients, ...