-
If a patient presents visibly intoxicated and announces his or her intent to harm others, it's easy to make the decision to involve security. However, any ED patient or visitor has the potential to become physically violent, warns Gordon Lee Gillespie, PhD, RN, PHCNS-BC, CEN, CCRN, CPEN, FAEN, assistant professor and director of population-focused care at University of Cincinnati (OH) College of Nursing.
-
When a man with a known history of seizures came to the ED at the University of California San Diego Medical Center very agitated, diaphoretic, and yelling, ED nurses first thought he was having a schizophrenic breakdown, says Tia Valentine, RN, CEN, ED clinical nurse educator.
-
David M. Solomon, RN, BSN, CEN, EMT-P, patient care coordinator in the ED at Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, NC, says that usually, medications for boarded patients have to be ordered from the pharmacy.
-
Resuscitation in the pregnant patient is an uncommon occurrence, estimated at 1 in 30,000 deliveries, yet it is unique in its potential to save not one, but two lives.
-
-
Although the diagnosis of cancer in childhood is relatively rare, with an annual incidence of 165 cases per million,
-
The neonatal population (birth to 1 month of age) provides a unique and difficult challenge for diagnosis and treatment in the emergency department, and a systematic approach is critical to allow for rapid diagnosis and subsequent therapy in the setting of a potentially sick neonate.
-
Do you treat elderly patients waiting in the ED as you would expect your own family member to be treated as if they were the only ones there?
-
Before ED nurses at Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia, MN, administered tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) to a man in his 80s with obvious stroke symptoms, the neurologist was consulted and also the patient's family members, says Kathie Pulchinski, RN, ED nurse manager.
-
Editor's Note: This is a two-part series on medication safety for inpatients being held in the ED. This month, we give strategies to reduce errors with inpatient medications. Last month, we gave strategies to avoid missed dosages.