gentle_ben_RN ASN

I can honestly say there is nothing else I'd rather do than be a nurse. In the PACU, the patients are still pretty loopy from the anesthesia and often think that I'm their surgeon and start asking me how everything went and if I really had to cut the...

I work in the PACU and I love it. My wife is the ER adrenaline junkie.

Even if we are outnumbered in our profession.....we can still talk in our own little forum.......soon we can take over the world:devil:

Yes we allow visits. Policy is to limit the visit to 1 fam member to only 2-3 min. However with my experience the family either greatly appreciates the opportunity or tries to take advantage of it and manipulate the staff to let the mother, brother, ...

My fav. is when the volunteer calls the desk and says the family wants to know how Mr./Ms whoever is doing when the patient has only been in the pacu long enough to be checked in and then continues to call every 30 min.