Laney123

I too echo the sentiments of the above posters. Nursing is a wonderful career for those who love nursing. I think alot of people enter the profession for the touted job stability, financial worth and flexibility. It is definitely a hard profession but a very rewarding one at the same time. It sends a red flag up in my mind when the first thing people want to know about nursing is how much the pay is. I understand this is very important, but trust me, pay will not see you through a 12hr shift on a busy floor or unit. I applaud you for wanting to enter such a noble profession as nursing. In my opinion, there is no better career, however I caution you to make sure it is what you really want to do. Nursing school is tough. It takes a committment and a lot of hard work but the rewards are priceless. I wish you the best of luck. I do think nursing will recover. It may take awhile but it will turn around. Good Luck with all this. Laney

I think there are so many things wrong with nursing that I don't know where to start. I think unfortunately many people see nursing as a stable entity and enter the profession for the wrong reasons. It is not an easy career and one must absolutlely LOVE it for to be successful. Those that enter for the wrong reasons are the ones who are LAZY and yes, there are many of them. I bust my butt every shift, doing extra, taking care of the patients to the best of my abiility. I work overtime to finish everything and try not to leave things for the next shift to do. I also find lateral violence in my workplace. Its so tiring to have nurses attack each other. There seem to be those that are never happy, that are always attacking others and I for one am downright sick of it. I think we all work hard and need to bond as a group rather than to implode from within. I also agree the problem is bigger than nursing. I know the mandates come down from management, but I for one signed onto this career to take care of my patients, to be a patient advocate and nobody will take that from me. I am a nurse who cares for her patients and for her coworkers. I think there are more of us than not and we need to start becoming advocates for ourselves just as much as we are advocates for our patients. I also say, if you dont love the profession and you are not in it for ALL the RIGHT reasons then, step aside and let those of us who want to care for patients do just that.

Hi there, We too do post op follow up calls. We are not always able to get to the calls the next day, although that is the ideal. We have upto 72 hours to call patients. We do only one call for each patient.

OH MY... I agree with JoPACU.... BIG mistake having OR RN's with no pacu experience recover PACU patients. There are so many things you need to watch for and be prepared to act on. Good Luck

We are allowed to wear either our own scrubs or the ceil blue surgical suite scrubs. We too are attached to our OR. We mostly wear the blue scrubs though.

I have to agree with the vote for the co-workers. I have a strong work ethic and although I know we are not all cut from the same mold, I can't stand sub-standard care either. There are a couple who think coming in on time means within a half hour of when their shift was supposed to start. If they can't answer or read their email they think they are having a bad shift. If a patient's monitor is beeping because their sat is 78% or they have had a run of VTACH, they are put out that they actually have to get off their lazy a-s-s-e-s and do their job.... Ugh, I hate that.

After several times saying good morning to a doc and never receiving a response, a glance or any acknowledgement that I had even spoken, I stepped into his path and said "Why didn't you tell me"? He looked at me in shock, wide eyed and said "Tell you what"? I said, "you didn't tell me I was invisible again today"!!! He didn't know what to say. Never ignored me again though!!! lol, I can still see the look on his face.....hahahah:lol2:

Hey there, thanks so much. I think that just may work. I really like that idea. We too do phase 1 and 2 in the same area.

Hi there, Thanks for your reply. I don't have a problem with the surgeons, but rather some of the nurses always seem to take the easy cases and the same ones always end up with the train wrecks... I am just trying to figure out a way to spread it out more fairly for eveyone... Laney

Hi, I work in an 8 bed Phase I pacu at a community hospital. I have a question for you seasoned PACU nurses. How do you do your patient assignments. This is my first PACU job, which I have been at for 2 years now. I have done ICU and ER previously. It seems that in my PACU, there is such a dysfunction in assigning a nurse to a patient. How are your assignments done? Do you rotate nurses and take turns? Do you assign a nurse to a surgeon? Do you assign cases at the start of the day? UGH, :bowingpurI just don't know the best way. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much for your insight. Laney

Hi Everyone, Im new to this website and to posting on it. I have a question and really hoped some of you can offere suggestions. I work in an 8 bed PACU at a community hospital. I have been there 2 years and it seems our way of making assignments or lack there of isn't working. Can some of you guys tell me how you set up your assignments for patient care in your Pacus? We have tried to assign cases to nurses, but it is difficult due to cases running over or coming out early etc. I didn't know if it was possible to assign a nurse to a particular surgeon, or what. Any suggestions would be so geatly appreciated. I have woked in ICU's and ER's but this is my first PACU job so I have nothing to draw from as far as how it is done elsewhere.... Thanks so much for your time. Laney:bowingpur