capa
New Members
-
Joined
-
Last visited
-
-
If the patient is strong enough to ambulate out of room can probably qualify for outpatient care
-
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 waiting impatiently to go to their room; plus having a family member visiting the other pt. because there is no admit bed for the inhouse pt and no where to put an awake stable pt. who has been in PACU at least 3 hours. We do have curtains and pull them around but a lot of privacy is given up.
-
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 are not trained in standards of PACU care. It is a hassle to take care of the CCU pts. with drips like Amidarone(sorry if I spelled it wrong). We were going to ICU at night to recover OR pts. just as a place to stay so we would not be alone in PACU instead of having 2 nurses come out at night because we are on call and work that day and the next day and we got abused by ICU expecting us to stay all night and recover their pts. so this ended.