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When restraints are needed, its a dangerous moment in the ED that puts the nurse and patient at risk for serious injury. For many EDs, the number of dangerous moments is rising as the number of psychiatric patients increases dramatically.
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Is your ED too often paying out hundreds or thousands of dollars for lost patient property? That was the case at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where 300 incidents occurred in a single year.
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Have you recently held down a flailing, seizing patient to prevent injury, doing your best to calm frantic family members while trying to find out what caused the seizure and determining what interventions are needed? These are the multiple challenges of caring for seizure patients as an ED nurse, says Lara Merana-Bailey, RN, MSN, ED educator at Hartford (CT) Hospital.
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Its that time of year again: Around this month, you can expect numbers of flu patients to steadily increase. This year, youll need to comply with new flu guidelines from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which call for free, on-site influenza vaccinations to all ED staff, including night and weekend staff, beginning in October of each year.
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The Bethesda, MD-based National Foundation of Infectious Diseases recommends that EDs implement an aggressive year-round infection control program. To reduce exposure to flu in your ED, use the following effective strategies.
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Its a tool that is a common sight in most EDs, but is often used incorrectly: The Broselow Emergency Tape. The tape is part of a system that assigns children to color zones based on a single length or weight measurement, which enables access to appropriate pre-calculated medication dosing and formulations and pre-determined equipment sizes necessary in the ED.
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The basic conclusion is that we should give the patient just what he or she needs and the devices we implant should be designed to fit the patient.
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