Pre- and postoperative care for inpatients and outpatients scheduled for surgeries or other anesthesia-requiring procedures in the operating rooms and remote anesthesia locations. The unit includes same-day surgery prep areas and a postanesthesia care unit where we monitor patients until they meet criteria for discharge to an intermediate care or other inpatient unit or home. We are cross-trained in all locations and in both prep and post-op care, including mechanical ventilation, invasive line monitoring and / or vasoactive drugs. Some nurses are trained to give IV sedation to invasive-line patients who are ASA levels 1 to 3.

• Routine: ages 18 and up under adult service and for emergency cases, ages 6 years and up with ASA levels 1 and 2
• Procedures span all surgical specialties as well as some pain clinic inpatients, neuroradiology, endoscopy and the catheterization lab.

• Prep: 23
• PACU: 29

• Prep: 1:1-3
• PACU 1:1-2

• 18 different shifts; 24 hours Monday to Friday and day shift Saturday
• Weekends and holidays: on-call system
• Combination of 8, 10 and 12 hours depending on time of day

• RN
• Support staff: critical care technicians, PACU support associates and patient service coordinators

• 10 to 16 weeks
• New Grads: SPRING Program

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