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That's unusual to go from PACU to ICU. From my experience in PACU, you fix the immediate problem with your critical patient (usually airway), recover them, and then send them to ICU. IF there is not an ICU bed available, then they are held in PACU on...

macfran, you shouldn't have a problem.

Nurse McDreamy (like greys anatomy). I thing the anesthesia was causing them to see things;)

I was just curious about what everyone else is doing about DVT prophylaxis starting in PACU. Where I work, if patients are ordered the subsequential compression stockings or AV impulses (AKA: leg wraps and foot wraps or whatever you call them at your...

Hello NICU nurses! I'm a male RN with 3 years experience (general surgery and recovery room). I have always had a huge interest in NICU nursing. Neonates are an amazing and inspiring kind of patient. I have this heartfelt desire to learn more about y...

Thanks everyone for the info. and encouragement..esp. SteveRN21. What you were talking about are exactly the things that are so intimidating for me. We have a level 3 NICU at the hospital where I work. I think I'll stay in PACU a little while longer ...

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Merrells (primo-breeze) are my favorite. I wouldn't work a day without them.

Actually, I think they have lumped PACU into specialty area and not as Critical Care. I know I deal with my share of critical patients every day.

My wife and I met in nursing school, dated 3 years, got jobs at the same hospital, got married, moved closer to work and bought a house. We work in different areas (she's in ER and I'm in PACU) and we both love our jobs. She went part-time, so our ho...

I don't mind staying with the patient and hooking them up, I will be more than glad to do that. The position I get in, is that when we run out of space in the PACU, we have to put the OR on hold. That means patients who are finished with surgery are ...

In our PACU most of the 1st shift nurses are women and the 2nd shift nurses are men (5 including me). The 1st shift (gals) usually have slots 1-9 on one side of the room, while the 2nd shift (guys) have 10-18. We refer to our PACU as the "pretty" sid...

Noahm...if only everyone felt the same way as you. Thanks for your support. It is much appreciated.

I've dealt with family members before who were employees of the hospital where I work, but it has never been an issue until today. A patient's daughter, a RN at my hospital (with a high reputation I might add) just waltzed up into the PACU unannounce...

You can extubate when your patient has a gag reflex, can lift their head up and hold it for at least 5 seconds or more, they should be awake and following commands too. Make sure they have gotten their strength back before you call anesthesia to come...

We played Bridge Over Troubled Water for our pinning. Our class was like a big family and really supported each other, so it was nice. Good luck.

I met my wife in nursing school and our 1 year wedding anniversary is coming up next month. She was a year ahead of me in college so it worked out great for me because she helped me study. It is great being married, especially when your wife is an RN...

I gave a post op patient morphine in the distal port in the IV tubing to dilute it and she told me not to do it like that because she liked to feel it burn as it was going in:nono: .........sign of a junkie.

I know how you feel. I started working as an RN at age 20 after graduating from an ADN program (now working on BSN). I still look very young and will be turning 24 in a few days. I was very worried that the doctors would not take me serious. It reall...

I'm sure everyone in PACU is experiencing CCOF (critical care overflow) due to no bed vacancy in their hospitals. I partly just wanted to vent a little. We have 18 slots in our PACU and yesterday they were all full. 6 were CCOF (with curtains piled e...

We just started doing the PCA's in PACU about 2 months ago. Prior to that we had no means to refrigerate them (we don't have pyxis). It's not so bad because you can get it done quickly when there are so many other RN's right in the room to set it up ...

You mean you have CCOF nurses?? We have to recover and do the ICU thang These are not post-ops, they are patients from the ED that need ICU but there are no beds. They put them in the PACU because we are a large room and have monitoring capabilities....

I worked with a nurse similar to your situation. You could always tell what kind of mood she was in by the color scrubs she had on (bright pink vs. gray) and the amount of makeup she was wearing or not wearing. She would have an occasional meltdown.....

Check out the brand Metroscrubs....they are very cool.