Hello pacu nurses... Question for all...hope it makes sense... I have worked in the pacu for almost 4 years and love it....except... on may occasions our hospitals 16 bed icu will be, as they like to call it, capped at 12. So when our icu does not have enough staff the 2 or 3 pt in the pacu must remain in the pacu overnight. Our call nurse is then mandated to come in and work 11-7 along with another pacu nurse. We are both taken off the next day but then the unit is short 2 rns. We have 10 ORs and do about 50 cases a day. This happened again last night. 5 times this month. My manager says its happening all over the country! Anybody have the same situation? Thanks for reading