Nurse competence in the post-anaesthesia care unit in Sweden: a qualitative study of the nurse’s perspective

BMC Nursing

Table 1 Characteristics of the included PACUs

	PACU 1	PACU 2
Type of hospital	District hospital	University hospital
Number of beds (during office hours)	40	42
Number of nurses employed	31	23
Other professionals stationed in the PACU besides nurses	Nurse assistant^a	Nurse assistant^a Anaesthesiologist

PACU Post-anaesthesia care unit
^aHas an upper-secondary qualification and works under the supervision of a nurse

ISSN: 1472-6955