Post anesthetic unit

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What is priority nursing care post anesthetic unit

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To be sure the patient is adequately entertained, with song and dance if necessary..

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

What are your thoughts about priorities?

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Moved to nursing student assistance forum

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

What does anesthesia do to patients, and what is imperative for safety?

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.

Fix what you broke.

We have knocked out, paralyzed, assaulted, battered and frozen a functional human being.

Are they breathing, moving, return of protective reflexes, return of consciousness, reversal of hypothermia, control of pain and nausea etc?

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.
To be sure the patient is adequately entertained, with song and dance if necessary..

I like to tell the same joke to all my patients all day long. They can't remember the punchline anyway. Never gets old. Sometimes I use funny accents on people before I give them their hearing aides back.

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