discharge criteria

Can you share your discharge criteria from PACU?
What are your criteria for when a only porter needs accompany a patient to a ward bed (day surgery or inpatient) and when a nurse must be present?

thanks in advance,
Evelyn

discharge home from PACU

Do the current standards provide support to deter the discharge home ofpatients directly from the PACU? We recently had a situation where the nightnurse was put in a position of discharging an elderly patient at midnight toher home post a general anesthetic for a fracture after falling.Thank you in advance for your feedback.

Sylvia

Medication Adminstration Records

Hi Everyone I have a quick question for you all. Do you use MARs in your PACU? We are heading this way for our ICU and longterm patients.(only) If you do use MARs, Do you also include the prn narcotics on the Mars or do they stay on the PACU record? Our staff is questioning removing these from the PACU flow sheet and putting them on the Mars. Thanks for your time. We are just wondering what other PACU are doing?
Lorna
PACU
Royal Columbian Hospital

neuro assessments

Does anyone have a teaching package for doing neuro assessments in PACU forpost-op spinal surgeries?