PACU Reflection

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I interned for 15 hours this week. I started the week off at Ortho Colorado. I cleaned beds and rooms and helped put patients' charts together. The next day was breast center. I gave patients paperwork to fill out and checked patients in. I also took the mammogram patients to get changed and gave patients' charts to the techs. Wednesday and Saturday I was in PACU and I helped the nurses with anything that they needed. I admited patients into the computer and restocked bays. I also got the patients ice chips and ice packs. I learned in the PACU how to line up nurses on the white board of who will get the patient next. I learned in Ortho where the operating room puts the stretchers that are dirty. I also learned how to check the oxygen level on the oxygen tanks under the patient beds. …show more content…

Anthony Hospital department tab is: Restock bays so nurses have everything they need close to them instead of the nurses looking for supplies which helps recover the patient

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