Post Anesthesia Care Unit (3 South Wing)

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

Unit Practice Councils