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    • Main Operating Room (OR)
    • Medical Intensive Care Unit (4 MICU)
    • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (5N NICU)
    • Perinatal Unit (5 East)
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    • Medical-Surgical Specialty Unit (6 West)
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    • Neuroscience/Trauma Intensive Care Unit (6 ICU)
    • Coronary Care Intensive Care Unit (7 North CCU)
    • Surgical Unit (8 East)
    • Liver Transplant Service (8 North)
    • Transplant Surgical Intensive Care Unit (8 ICU)

    UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center

    • Nethercutt Emergency Department
    • Interventional Services
    • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ( 2SWW)
    • Post Anesthesia Care Unit (3SW)
    • Orthopaedics (3 North Wing)
    • Adult Surgical Unit (4 North Wing)
    • General Medicine (4 Merle Norman Pavilion)
    • Geriatrics (5 North Wing)
    • Intermediate Care (5 Merle Norman Pavilion)

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    Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA

    • Geriatric Psychiatry (4N)
    • Child & Adolescent Services (4 West)
    • Allied Health (Operation Mend)
    • Interventional Radiology
    • Procedure and Treatment Unit (PTU)
    • Outpatient Surgery Center
    • Medical Procedures Unit (MPU)
    • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (5N NICU)
    • Medical-Surgical Specialty Unit (6 West)
    • Hematology and Stem Cell Transplant Unit (6 East)
    • Cardiac Observation Unit (7 North COU)
    • Transitional Recovery Unit (TRU)
    • Coronary Care Intensive Care Unit (7 CCU)
    • Transplant Surgical Intensive Care Unit (8ICU)
    • Oncology Unit (4 Southwest Wing)
    • Gastrointestinal Lab (MPU)
    • Resource Team
    • Labor and Delivery Unit (2 Southwest Wing)
    • Adult Intensive Care Unit (4 Central Wing)
    • Geriatrics Unit (5 North Wing)
    • Pediatric Unit (6 North Wing)
    • A Level Merle Norman (AMNP)
    • Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
    • Main Operating Room (OR)
    • Medical Intensive Care Unit (4 MICU)
    • Perinatal Unit (5 East)
    • Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
    • Neurology and Neurosurgery (6 North)
    • Orthopaedics Unit (3 North Wing)
    • Neuroscience/Trauma Intensive Care Unit (6ICU)
    • Surgical Unit (8 East)
    • Liver Transplant Service (8 North)
    • Nethercutt Emergency Center
    • Interventional Services
    • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ( 2 Southwest Wing)
    • Post Anesthesia Care Unit (3 South Wing)
    • Adult Surgical Unit (4 North Wing)
    • General Medicine Unit (4 Merle Norman Pavilion)
    • Intermediate Care Unit (5 Merle Norman Pavilion)
    • Stein Eye Institute (OR)
    • Geriatric Services (4 North)
    • Child & Adolescent Services (4 West)
    • Allied Health (Operation Mend)
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Unit Practice Councils

Unit Practice Councils

Unit Practice Councils

  • Interventional Radiology
  • Procedure and Treatment Unit (PTU)
  • Outpatient Surgery Center
  • Medical Procedures Unit (MPU)
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (5N NICU)
  • Medical-Surgical Specialty Unit (6 West)
  • Hematology and Stem Cell Transplant Unit (6 East)
  • Cardiac Observation Unit (7 North COU)
  • Transitional Recovery Unit (TRU)
  • Coronary Care Intensive Care Unit (7 CCU)
  • Transplant Surgical Intensive Care Unit (8ICU)
  • Oncology Unit (4 Southwest Wing)
  • Gastrointestinal Lab (MPU)
  • Resource Team
  • Labor and Delivery Unit (2 Southwest Wing)
  • Adult Intensive Care Unit (4 Central Wing)
  • Geriatrics Unit (5 North Wing)
    • Medical Procedure Unit (MPU)
  • Pediatric Unit (6 North Wing)
  • A Level Merle Norman (AMNP)
  • Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
  • Main Operating Room (OR)
  • Medical Intensive Care Unit (4 MICU)
  • Perinatal Unit (5 East)
  • Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
  • Neurology and Neurosurgery (6 North)
  • Orthopaedics Unit (3 North Wing)
  • Neuroscience/Trauma Intensive Care Unit (6ICU)
  • Surgical Unit (8 East)
  • Liver Transplant Service (8 North)
  • Nethercutt Emergency Center
  • Interventional Services
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ( 2 Southwest Wing)
  • Post Anesthesia Care Unit (3 South Wing)
  • Adult Surgical Unit (4 North Wing)
  • General Medicine Unit (4 Merle Norman Pavilion)
    • Geriatrics (5 North Wing)
  • Intermediate Care Unit (5 Merle Norman Pavilion)
  • Stein Eye Institute (OR)
  • Geriatric Services (4 North)
  • Child & Adolescent Services (4 West)
  • Allied Health (Operation Mend)
  • Interventional Radiology
  • Procedure and Treatment Unit (PTU)
  • Outpatient Surgery Center
  • Medical Procedures Unit (MPU)
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (5N NICU)
  • Medical-Surgical Specialty Unit (6 West)
  • Hematology and Stem Cell Transplant Unit (6 East)
  • Cardiac Observation Unit (7 North COU)
  • Transitional Recovery Unit (TRU)
  • Coronary Care Intensive Care Unit (7 CCU)
  • Transplant Surgical Intensive Care Unit (8ICU)
  • Oncology Unit (4 Southwest Wing)
  • Gastrointestinal Lab (MPU)
  • Resource Team
  • Labor and Delivery Unit (2 Southwest Wing)
  • Adult Intensive Care Unit (4 Central Wing)
  • Geriatrics Unit (5 North Wing)
  • Pediatric Unit (6 North Wing)
  • A Level Merle Norman (AMNP)
  • Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
  • Main Operating Room (OR)
  • Medical Intensive Care Unit (4 MICU)
  • Perinatal Unit (5 East)
  • Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
  • Neurology and Neurosurgery (6 North)
  • Orthopaedics Unit (3 North Wing)
  • Neuroscience/Trauma Intensive Care Unit (6ICU)
  • Surgical Unit (8 East)
  • Liver Transplant Service (8 North)
  • Nethercutt Emergency Center
  • Interventional Services
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ( 2 Southwest Wing)
  • Post Anesthesia Care Unit (3 South Wing)
  • Adult Surgical Unit (4 North Wing)
  • General Medicine Unit (4 Merle Norman Pavilion)
  • Intermediate Care Unit (5 Merle Norman Pavilion)
  • Stein Eye Institute (OR)
  • Geriatric Services (4 North)
  • Child & Adolescent Services (4 West)
  • Allied Health (Operation Mend)
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UPC Chair: Tammy Camacho
UPC Co-Chair: Hannah Jacinto
Key Documents
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Mission/ Purpose

  • 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.

Recent Accomplishments

  • 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."

Current Initiatives/Areas of Focus

  • 2018 UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center-UPC Summit Poster Presentation: Newly Improved Discharge Bundle specific to PTU / PACU.
  • Excellence in Quality Patient Care.
  • Employee Engagement.

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