Fil Falculan

• Receive patients safely from the operating room and perform a thorough handoff with the anesthesia and surgical teams.
• Continuously assess and monitor airway, breathing, circulation, neurological status, and vital signs.
• Recognize and respond promptly to post-anesthesia complications such as airway obstruction, respiratory depression,bleeding, hypotension, hypertension, nausea and vomiting, or cardiac changes.
• Administer medications, IV fluids, blood products, and oxygen therapy as ordered.
• Managed pain through prescribed medications and non-pharmacological interventions, assessing effectiveness to optimize patient comfort.
• Monitor surgical sites, drains, dressings, and tubes for bleeding or other complications.
• Maintain patient safety by preventing falls, aspiration, and other post-operative risks.
• Communicated patient status and care plans clearly to surgeons, anesthesiologists, patients, families, and healthcare team members, fostering collaborative care.•
• Educate patients and families on post-operative care, pain management, medications, activity restrictions, and discharge instructions
• Determine readiness for discharge from the PACU using established recovery criteria (such as the Aldrete Score) and facilitate transfer to the appropriate unit or discharge home
• Responded rapidly to medical emergencies, initiating resuscitation measures.
• Ensured adherence to infection prevention protocols and patient safety measures, contributing to high standards of care in the PACU.

• Works in close professional relationship with the anaesthetic medical staff whilst the patient is undergoing their perioperative care.
• Administer anesthesia under the medical direction of an anesthesiologist.
• Administer the prescribed anesthetic with particular care to the cardiovascular, respiratory and metabolic health of the patient.
• Assist the anesthesiologist in maintaining anesthesia during surgery and monitoring the status of the patient while surgery is going on.
• Starting and adjusting doses of vasoactive infusions; administering vasoactive and anesthetic drugs; administering blood; and any other treatment modalities which are prescribed by the supervising anesthesiologist.
• Recognize that the choice of anesthetic drugs and techniques is prescribed by the attending anesthesiologist preoperatively.
• Notified supervising anesthesiologist for anesthesia induction, extubation of tracheal tube, and consultation during unexpected perioperative events to ensure optimal patient care.
• Calibrating and testing the equipment that delivers and monitors anesthesia.
• Ensured functionality of all medical equipment prior to procedures.•
• Ensure that the operation theater is in working condition.
• Assist in the postoperative management of patients by managing post-op ventilatory support and acute pain management in conjunction with existing protocols or the attending anesthesiologist.
• Facilitated safe transition of patient from operating room to recovery room, ensuring continuous monitoring and support.

Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) Job Description

• Monitors patients when they are still under the effects of anesthesia.
• Connects the patient to devices such as cardiac monitoring equipment, and to intravenous therapy for fluids and pain medication
• Plays an essential role in monitoring vital signs on a regular basis, such as blood pressure, pulse and temperature. Ensures that the patient is breathing properly and administers oxygen when needed.
• Executed physician orders to uphold continuity and quality of nursing care, enhancing patient safety and recovery.
• React rapidly to signs of negative physical changes, calling for assistance and beginning cardiopulmonary resuscitation if necessary.
• Observes patients to assess their comfort level, asks patients about their level of pain, and administers pain medications that have been prescribed. Notifies the physician if more pain medication appears to be needed.
• Complete notes on the charts, and communicate information in verbal or written form to other PACU nurses to physicians and ward staff. Complete any forms required by the facility.
• Perform continual evaluation of the patients’ condition, providing patient safety, comfort and privacy all the time.