Patient assignments

[Laney123]

Hi Everyone,

Im new to this website and to posting on it. I have a question and really hoped some of you can offere suggestions.

I work in an 8 bed PACU at a community hospital. I have been there 2 years and it seems our way of making assignments or lack there of isn't working. Can some of you guys tell me how you set up your assignments for patient care in your Pacus? We have tried to assign cases to nurses, but it is difficult due to cases running over or coming out early etc. I didn't know if it was possible to assign a nurse to a particular surgeon, or what. Any suggestions would be so geatly appreciated.

I have woked in ICU's and ER's but this is my first PACU job so I have nothing to draw from as far as how it is done elsewhere....

Thanks so much for your time.

Laney:bowingpur

[nghtfltguy, BSN, RN]

good luck w/ what you are trying to do...

im not a PACU nurse but i have worked there on occasion..

for the most part... im pretty sure they don't make assignments based upon surgeons and nurses... i think it usually is a matter of beds... don't matter what surgeon did the op...just matters where that pt ends up in your dept...

my suggestion to you is...

if you have a problem w/ a certain surgeon or whatever.. talk to that doc... or your supervisor... im pretty sure that they don't make exceptions on surgeon prefernce in the PACU...

then again.. i could be wrong...

either way... i wish you the best of luck....

[Laney123]

Hi there,

Thanks for your reply. I don't have a problem with the surgeons, but rather some of the nurses always seem to take the easy cases and the same ones always end up with the train wrecks... I am just trying to figure out a way to spread it out more fairly for eveyone...

Laney