SMUCLA-3SW (PACU)

To empower staff to provide exemplary preoperative and postoperative patient care using the professional governance model.

• Improving patient outcomes and patient / family experience while in PTU and PACU
• Enabling staff to own their professional practice
• Aligning PTU / PACU goals with UCLA’s overall organizational goals

• 2013 UPC Summit Poster Presentation - Awarded 1st place
• 2014 UPC Summit Podium Presentation - Awarded 2nd place
• We celebrate the following:
  • Employee of the Quarter - the staff vote in our “Woop! Woop!” box with a specific criteria every quarter
  • Staff Quarterly Birthdays
  • Certification Day
  • Perianesthesia Nurses Week
  • Recognition of Employees acquiring higher education
• "Acknowledgement Board," which entails birthday corner, thoughts of the day, appreciation notes, and a "Shout Out" wall where staff's important life events are posted (e.g., engagements, weddings, pregnancies, retirements)
• Fun activities for the unit, such as Easter egg hunting and wheel of fortune
• Participation in twice-monthly staff meetings to provide unit updates.
• An updated UPC board, that is Olympic inspired- KEEP CALM AND GO FOR THE GOLD- with a new communication tree line.
• Upcoming events:
  • Nurses week
  • Fundraising event: "Great deals. Great cause."

• 2018 UPC Summit Poster Presentation: Newly Improved Discharge Bundle specific to PTU / PACU
• Excellence in Quality Patient Care
• Employee Engagement

UPC Meetings are held 
Every Second and Fourth Tuesday
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