gizmopacurn

gizmopacurn has 10 years experience and specializes in Post Anesthesia, Pre-Op.

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1. Alone in the PACU

   gizmopacurn replied to Statdotcom's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   You always have to have 2 RN's in a pacu unit, 1 can be a PACU RN and the other an RN. Our hospital would never leave a nurse by herself recovering a fresh post op patient, so many safety

2. PACU recovering patients in the ICU?

   gizmopacurn replied to QCG33k's topic in General Nursing

   our ICU pt's that are intubated go directly to ICU. We do not send a PACU nurse there, we don't even have enough nurses for our unit let alone sending one to ICU to watch over and intubated pt that an...