Post anesthesia care unit

biblical teachings. This belief when compounded with a trauma scenario in India where there is alack of awareness of this community leads to creation of obstacles in their treatment plan along with legal, medical and ethical challenges for the health care provider1. ABSTRACT The awareness of the beliefs of Jehovah’s Witness’s in India is very poor. One of the fundamentals of their beliefs is prohibition of blood and blood product transfusions. This presents a very unique challenge especially…

student were assigned to go and visit the PACU. All patients are admitted to the PACU, Post-anesthesia care unit, following surgery. We visited the PACU in the first week of clinical, so I was familiar with the environment. When I first walked into the PACU it was empty, but the nurse told me just give it a few minutes it is going to get busy. I was assigned to be with a nurse for the day and observe how she takes care of patients after surgery is completed. The first patient came in with the…

prostate (TURP). It also discusses nursing care interventions for patients in the postoperative phase and identifies complications from the procedure and how to prevent them. Summary: Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is the most favored medical intervention for people with benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH). BPH occurs when the prostate gland…

The health care service industry spends more than $200 billion every year on medicinal and non-restorative items. Hospitals are situations for recuperating however a large number of the items and materials that come into a clinic may be destructive to patients, staff, and those in the group. This is because of the way that a few items utilized as a part of human services may contain or discharge cancer-causing agents, conceptive poisons or different unsafe materials. Huge numbers of the…

had to change and birth plan since the Cesarean is then in an operating room and only one visitor is allowed in. While another mother who has had multiple health issues and had some concerns with being put under general anesthesia, learned that there are other methods of anesthesia that can be used such as local, epidural, spinal, or even a combination of both spinal and epidural to help with the surgery. She was able to obtain a clear understanding and make a final decision that the…

When I graduate high school I want to become a successful nurse, preferably a registered nurse or a surgical nurse. I know becoming a surgical and registered nurse takes time, dedication and will be challenging but I’m determined to do it. Becoming a surgical and registered nurse has always been a goal of mine. It will give me the opportunity to help more people with health issues, where there I can have a huge impact on saving their life. The compassion that I have for others will really show…

mechanisms, thus resulting in psychological distress and disruption of normal adaptive functioning.1 The stress response following a critical incident has been described as a second victim phenomenon.2 More specifically, a second victim is any health care provider involved in an unanticipated adverse patient event and who becomes traumatized by the event.2 It is common for second victims to feel personally responsible for the outcomes while second guessing their clinical skills and…

patient monitoring (Carlisle, 2015). Older patients with co-morbidities like obesity and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at higher risk to develop OIRD (Zedler et al, 2015). Even though pain management is a critical aspect during patient care,…

have learned right after my first visit to the OR on September 30th when we had a meeting with the entire team. we had a walk through the OR department, It was a first glance of the anesthesia care unit (ACU), MAIN Operating Room (OR), Supply Room, Sterile Processing Department (SPD), and the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) or recovery. “ identify possible solutions across the surgical department to create the most efficient workflow” was determined as the main objective of our project 2.…

Once I had completed nursing school I had the mindset that I finally realized what my career calling was therefore the rest of my career decisions would be easy. However, what I did not acknowledge was the countless career options within the nursing profession. It is hard to really know what area of nursing I wanted to be in, simply because the majority of clinical rotations in nursing school are medical-surgical. When I graduated from my Associate Degree of Nursing program I was more the…