emmijay

No ACLS no anesthesia in house. I contacted NYSNA (NY state nurses association) rep. and she doesn't think that we will be able to get pacu to take call. Just crazy!!

Any of you OR nurses doing Pacu after hours on call? Our hospital refuses to put Pacu nurses on call. Instead OR nurses are doing surgery then recovery. My training was 1 week in Pacu. Not only is the OR team unavailable for emergency surgery, but we don't do recovery on a day to day basis. I don't feel I am qualified and all the other hospital in the area have Pacu on call. We also cover endo unit which was a 3 day orientation and some of the equipment need for the scopes is up 1 flight of stair in the locked endo unit. Does anyone know if there is any standard of practice that says this is not safe or where to look? I have come in at 7am worked my normal shift till 3pm. Took call at 3pm-7am. Needless to say emergency cases pilled up and I never left. At 11pm I am finishing up surgery only to go onto recovering the patient I had a 20 min. lunch and that was it (maybe 5min here or there to catch my breath). This really doesn't seem right long hours and then changing specialty areas? Imput please!