Acute Care Nurse Practitioners in the PACU

The Post-Procedural PACU of MGUH was opened in 2012. This unit was to be an extension of the PACU, built to take patients after IR and Catheterization Lab procedures. Because of the distance of the new unit from the main PACU, the need for in-house providers to manage emergent interventions, coordinate referrals and discharges, and prescribe urgent treatments or medications, became apparent.

Source: Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing - July 31, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Martha Beene, Arlis Jean Cihak Tags: ASPAN National Conference Abstract Source Type: research