Post anesthesia care unit

Bachelors educated RN in the Perioperative Unit (OR). Her role is to provide direct care and leadership to the surgical nursing team. Her function includes safely assuring and assisting the patients to navigate the surgical pre-operative, intra-operative, and immediate post-operative processes. This role incorporates preoperative review of existing assessment information ensuring completeness of surgical records/data, implementing any immediate surgical/anesthesia orders, communicate…

be receiving general anesthesia. General anesthesia is known to be the most controllable method. Few side effects are present with this anesthesia. This type of anesthesia is a reversible loss of consciousness. Depression of the central nervous system takes place which helps with pain relief as well. The patient is unconsciousness and unaware during the entire surgery. Based on this anesthesia it is important to monitor the patient’s vital signs continuously intra-op and post-op. Vital signs to…

al., 2014, para. 1)‌. Several possible causes of ED have been proposed including rapid emergence from short acting volatile anesthetics and the chemical makeup of volatile anesthetics themselves (Reduque & Verghese, 2012).‌ ED impacts 5.3% of all post-anesthetic patients as a whole, with the highest incidence (12-13%) occurring in children.(Vlajkovic, Gordana, Sindjelic, & Radomir, 2007). The incidence of ED in children is volatile gas dependent, occurring in 2% of cases after receiving…

Overview of the Consultation Process The purpose of this consultation is to evaluate and analyze this healthcare organization and give recommendations on necessary changes to improve care and efficiency. The datas were collected by interviewing the Nursing Supervisor in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit and from the organization’s website. Organizational Analysis Description of the Organization This organization is one of the biggest non-profit medical…

Surgical Patients Communication errors continue to plague healthcare and can lead to increased morbidity and mortality in patients. Staggers & Blaz (2012) acknowledge that “important information gaps, omissions, and errors” related to patient care can occur in the handoff process (p. 247). Inconsistencies, including information loss and misunderstanding, in the report process between providers are factors that may lead to an increase in sentinel events, medication errors, and poor…

many years. This has many negative consequences on nurses and their careers but by being understaffed because of a new census scheduling policy can leave the unit unsafe; lead to poor patient care; and even patient death. It is cause for concern for not only nurses but for patients and their families. This affects everyone. Census on the unit is presently 1:14 when according to some states, they are fighting for 1:5. Keeping the nurse to patient ratio low, can help from causing panic by…

Aspiration is inhalation of foreign material below the vocal cords. In anesthesia practice, the inhalation of gastric content is rare 1 per 2000-3000 cases occurrence, however the consequences of the complication can be detrimental (Raghavendran, Nemzek, Napolitano, Knight, 2011). Presentation of the pulmonary aspiration ranges from silent aspiration, where the patient does not experience any symptoms, to the development of acute lung injury (ALI). The mortality rate after development of ALI…

addition because he had high blood she decided to use carbocaine instead of the usual lidocaine she administrated the anesthesia on the right side and waited a few minutes for the patient to be completely numb. In addition the patient let the hygienist know that he had neck problems and the hygienist brought a special pillow for patients with neck issues. As soon as the anesthesia came into effect she began with the cleaning using the Cavitron machine and scaling the patients teeth. Three mins…

Nurses are taught to care for patients in the order of severity. Prioritizing nursing care is very important, and when nurses do not use the proper nursing skills to prioritize nursing care for a patient then, it could compromise patient care. Therefore, the following is the priority I would place my patients in. 1) Chest Pain patient, 2) Elderly confused patient, 3) Post-op Cardiac patient, 4) Crohn’s disease patient. The patient being admitted from the emergency room is the highest…

Amputations were very common during this time, and it is not like what surgery is like in present day. There was no anesthesia yet, so many people drank alcohol prior to the amputation to help dull the pain. Usually, people knew for several days that they would be getting an amputation, so soldiers were known to hoard alcohol rations until day of surgery so that they could be more sedated, per se. The reason why they had to wait is because once the wound is washed out and cleaned thoroughly, the…