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Be honest: Are you entirely comfortable caring for a patient with an invasive line? If your answer is no, you could be putting a patients life in danger, says Reneé Semonin Holleran, RN, PhD, CEN, CCRN, CFRN, clinical manager of the ED at University of Utah Hospital and Clinics in Salt Lake City.
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A cancer patient with a pericardial effusion was upset about something other than her condition when she arrived at the ED at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor: not being able to see her regular oncologist.
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Sievers V, Murphy S, Miller JJ. Sexual assault evidence collection more accurate when completed by sexual assault nurse examiners: Colorados experience. J Emerg Nurs 2003; 29:511-514.
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Is it possible that you could miss the signs of an ischemic stroke or subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) when your waiting room is full of sick and injured patients?
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You wrongly assume an 85-year-old woman is the correct patient because she answers to the name on the chart in front of you. You mistakenly fail to dilute a concentrated medication. You forget to ask what other medications an elderly man is taking before administering heparin.
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Charles River Laboratories International (Wilmington, Massachusetts) has acquires River Valley Farms (Minneapolis, Minnesota), a privately held medical device contract research business. Terms were not disclosed.
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It may have been frigid and gloomy outside the storied Hotel Pierre where the Piper Jaffray conference was held, but inside the jam-packed meeting rooms, investors heard that the state of the healthcare industry is upbeat and filled with optimism.
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As the 16th edition of the Piper Jaffray Health Care Conference concluded here late last month, much of the crowd had already departed, presumably for warmer climes. However, those still in attendance as the three-day gathering drew to a close were treated to an informative panel on the use of and emerging trends in diagnostics in the emergency department and intensive care unit.
