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A man with a mild stomachache, a woman reporting neck pain days after a motor vehicle accident, and a teenager with an ankle injury. Would these patients be triaged as low acuity and sent to your EDs waiting room?
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Are you struggling to cut delays in getting lab test results? Lab delays can have a dramatic impact on patient flow.
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If your ED hasnt switched to a five-level triage system yet, theres no time like the present, according to a report from the joint five-level triage task force of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA).
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A patient comes to your ED with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), the deadliest and least treatable form of stroke, which accounts for 15% of strokes and nearly half of the 164,000 stroke deaths in the United States annually. Right now, there is very little you can do for this patient, but that may change soon.
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Its 3 a.m., and a well-dressed man and woman approach the triage nurse with official-looking clipboards in hand. They claim to be surveyors from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and they demand to be shown your medication storage areas.
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ED nurses will face even greater responsibility for compliance under the 2006 National Patient Safety Goals just unveiled by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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Overworked ED nurses at McKay-Dee Hospital Center in Ogden, UT, were frustrated with spending hours looking through charts to figure out charges for procedures.
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A man walks into your ED screaming at the top of his lungs and waving his arms wildly. Its clear that sedation is needed, but the safety of this patient and the ED staff is very much at risk.
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An 8-year-old boy with a fractured arm was grimacing in pain when he arrived at the ED at Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta. Nurses quickly learned about his love for dinosaurs, cars, and superheroes and talked to him about his interests.
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This is the second of a two-part series on care of sepsis patients in the ED. This month, we cover educational strategies for emergency nurses regarding practice changes to comply with new guidelines. Last month, we covered new approaches for assessment and intervention in the ED.
