9 PACU Pick-me-ups

1 Infuse your staff with a sense of ownership; 2 Appoint a PACU medical director; 3 Use short-acting anesthetics; 4 Decrease nauseated patients; 5 Maximize your space efficiencies; 6 Invite relatives to bedside; 7 Keep nurses at bedside; 8 Free up PACU beds by jockeying patients; 9 Ask your staff how to do it better; Until our better is best; Achieving; Afterward; Anesthesia; Appoint; Based; Center; Decrease; Excellence. Achieving; Free; Infuse; Invite; Involving; Maximize; ORs; Observing; PACU; PACU QI; PACU's; PONV; Providers; QA; QI; Working; acts; addition; address; adequately; administering; advantage; affix; ambulatory; analysis; anesthesia; anesthesiologist; anesthesiologists; anesthetic; arrival; arrive; asked; aspect; assigned; assignment; assigns; averaged; axillary; basis; bed; big; billed; block; blood; board; boost; booting; bottlenecks; bottom; breast; busiest; busy; call; capacity; card; care; center; chain; chair; changed; checks; choice; choose; collaborated; collaborative; common; compiled; comprehensive; concerned; consistent; contact; conversing; create; creating; cross-training; daily; data; days; decisions; decreased; delays; delivered; demonstrates; department; depend; details; develop; dialogue; dictate; difference; director; discharge; dissection; drugs; effective; efficiency; electronic; embrace; emergence; employees; empower; encourage; end; enthusiastic; entire; environment; equipment; escort; event; eventual; expedite; expenses; facility; factors; falls; family; feet; felt; fill; flexibility; floor; focus; follow-up; form; forming; fostered; found; free; front; general; give; goal; hand; handoff; hold; home; hours; ideas; identified; immense; impacts; important; improved; improvement; improvements; improving; incidence; include; incorporated; index; individuals; information; integral; intense; invite; issues; items; jockeying; key; label; lacking; lead; leader; leadership; leave; level; leverage; line; link; literally; longer; lymph; made; make; mastectomy; maximize; means; measured; medical; medication; member; minimize; morning; motivates; move; multispecialty; nausea; nauseated; necessities; needed; node; number; nurse; nursing; nutrition; observation; occupancy; occur; offers; ongoing; opened; openly; opportunity; option; order; other's; outcomes; outpatient; overnight; overseeing; overwhelmingly; ownership; pain; pain-free; paravertebral; part; participation; patient; patients; percent; performed; person; personnel; phase-two; phone; physician; planned; planning; position; positive; post-anesthesia; post-op; potential; practice; pre-emptive; pre-op; precise; pressure; prevent; prevention; prevents; problem; process; processes; provide; providers; pushing; quality; quickly; rate; reason; recalling; recognized; reconstruction; recovery; reduce; regional; regretted; relationship; relatives; relief; remain; represent; require; resource; responds; response; responsible; resulting; results; risk; rotating; routine; satisfaction; schedule; scheduled; scores; seamless; seemingly; sense; serve; serving; set; share; short; short-acting; significantly; situations; slightly; small; sooner; sounding; space; speak; specialized; spend; stabilized; staff; staffed; staffing; standard; standardization; standardized; stay; step; studied; success; successful; suggest; support; surgeon's; surgery; surgical; talk; task; teaching; team; three-by-five-inch; time; times; transport; transportation; treatment; turn; type; uncover; undergo; undergoing; understand; understanding; unexpected; unit; vacancy; valuable; variability; verbal; wait; waiting; wake; walking; wasted; ways; wheelchair; work; workflow; working; write