London 88: You have just described a scenario that all PACU nurses deal with every day, anesthesia rushing to start another case and not back up the OR schedule; plus having a wide awake SDS pt...
I am a PACU nurse and our ICU takes their OR pts. directly unless they are filled and then they stay in PACU until a bed opens up, but this is rare. We do recover the CCU pts. because those nurses...