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57 people have viewed this... any input, please?? Thanks!!

Looking to see what other PACU's do for on call... Currently our PACU has one nurse on call for 11p-7a weeknights and 1 nurse on call for the weekend. We will recover night/weekend cases in an ICU room to maintain the ASPAN standard of 2 nurses - this is 1 PACU RN and then the ICU RNs are available if we need help. If there is a quick case to follow, we would have to recover in the PACU so we could care for more than one pt at a time. When this occurs we have call upon the house supervisor to be with us if they're available or try to call down the list of RNs who aren't on call to see if someone could come in. Obviously other situations can arise that effect the standards, such as nurse/pt ratios with airway management and children, etc. In which we could use a backup nurse. Staff is trying to implement a second nurse to be on call as a backup for when these situations arise. We are a 208 bed, level 2 trauma center in New England. I would love to hear from anyone that has any insight or thoughts on the subject as well as what you do in your PACU. Thanks!