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Every area of nursing has wonderful, empathetic nurses, and unfortunately, every area has nurses who will do as little as possible. We are all "real nurses," no matter what areas we work in. I have been a PACU nurse for many years. I am interested...

You are a great writer!!!

Looks like this nurse would finally give up and quit nursing:lol2:

This is common. I believe it is ASPAN Standards:clown:

We use our Aldrete score as criteria for discharge. We use a paper system. but if we ever go computerized, we will incorporate it into the system. It may be a guideline, but it is still an important tool.

We used to use the nursing supervisor as our back up nurse when we came in on call, but we have gone to having two people on call and both come in, no matter what the case or how many.

In the PACU I work in, there is quite a lot of lifting. We are constantly pulling patients up in bed to raise the HOB and increase respiratory effort. Turning and repositioning as well as transporting require good body mechanics.

We start the PCA in our PACU. It seems to help relieve pain sooner that way.

I wouldn't work anywhere else.

I work in a 13 bed PACU (appx. 400 bed hosp.). We have two PACU nurses come out on call anytime a patient is in PACU. This has forced to have more staff, which has been a good thing, but we do take a lot of call. We all like having two nurses. It...

If you need a reference book, the PeriAnesthesia Nursing Core Curriculum ed. Donna M. DeFazio Quinn and Lois Schick which is published by the American Society of PeriAnesthesa Nurses is an excellent reference book. I used it to study for CPAN as wel...

There is a different kind of stress than med/surg, but if you go to PACU don't think you will have a stress-free environment to work in. You need excellent airway management skills as well as some critical care skills. Most PACU's require nurses to...

How about "PACU Nursing - it's not for wimps."

Your situation sounds horrible. God bless you. We don't hold pts. overnight. But then again, we barely have the staff to recover surgical patients during the day. If our oncall staff had to come out to watch overnighters, and heaven forbid, nonsu...

I have read several stories about seeing nurses in the hospital who turned out to be ghosts. What I would like to know is why anyone would want to spend their afterlife @ work??

There is nothing, and I mean nothing, to be ashamed of by becoming a nurse. Ours is one of the most trusted professions. Even above MD's and especially above lawyers. A good nurse must be intelligent and motivated, as well as, compassionate and sa...

We have pain control drummed into our heads by JCAHO and as PACU nurses, it is our job to relieve post op pain as much as possible. You did the right thing, no matter what the surgeon says

Don't you just love being oh hold to give report to a nurse while she/he is at lunch, and you haven't even had a break for hours and hours?

I don't work in Trauma, and I am not really up on horticulture. What is Moon Flower?

It's been awhile since this thread had a reply, but it needs to be continued. We all need a place to vent. Of course, it is 3:30 in the a.m. while I am replying while I wait for a guy who got drunk and got stabbed. You know your a PACU nurse whe...

Don't assume your mother will recieve poor nursing care. Treat the nurses as you would want to be treated if you were the nurse. But I also agree that you shouldn't advertise the fact that you are a nurse. With my family, I have found that it seems t...

I am sorry about the fire, but I had read that the place was being demolished. I am glad that interesting old building is being used for something. Although, I'm not sure I would want to live there. Most likely, it is haunted.