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THanks for the feedback:nurse:

What criteria / orders do you have for discharging a lap chole patient? We are discharging these patients from an outpatient surgery unit when they meet PRS critieria, but sometimes that doesn't seem like a long enough recovery time. They could meet PRS score in 1 or 2 hours, and we have no specific postop order telling us to keep them any longer than that. Any help out there?

I'm clinical coordinator for an outpatient surgery / PACU staff of 20. I have a "master" schedule...staff have set days/hours and I more or less just tweak it to account for on call and vacation days. Is a little bit time consuming for me but I can get the schedule out 4-6 wks in advance. I can do a schedule in about an hour, sometimes just have to ask a couple of nurses to work an extra day or change their hours once in a while.

Am trying to find out how other facilities manage a scheduling option for working 24 hrs on weekends only, getting paid for 32 or 36 hours. Our small (