PACU Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcomes: The Evidence Is Still Missing

ALTHOUGH IT HAS BEEN more than 17  years, I clearly recall the conversation I had with the Surgery Director of the hospital in which I had recently begun duties as a nurse of the anesthesiology department. After a very busy morning shift in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU), with many surgeries completed almost at the same time, I told her that I did not feel capable of simultaneously caring for more than two to three postoperative patients. To paraphrase her words, she answered “It's a matter of time.

Source: Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing - March 25, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Panagiotis Kiekkas, Diamanto Aretha Tags: The Back Page Source Type: research