report on er nursing

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hi everyone, im very new here. if anyone could please help me out i would soo be grateful :p im doing a report on ER nursing so i need to be able to define the occupation, say what the job does.. i need to define the duties/tasks and be able to say what you ER nurses do everyday, i would really appreciate as much as you can give me, i know theres so many things that you do in the ER, but everything will help me. if you could also tell me about the prep courses for the ER too, i've been reading the messages here, and i've seen PALS, TNCC, ACLS and ENCP i would like to know what all those mean? and what the courses do. thank you so much everyone :roll elizabeth :roll

Nurses in our ER triage patients, start IV, draw labs, do EKG's, draw ABG's (arterial blood gases), apply telemetry, do FHT (fetal heart tones), get vital signs, give meds all routes, assess and reassess patient, observe the monitors, assist with procedures of all kinds, foley catheters, nasal gastric tubes for lavage/gavage, suction patients, assist with codes, take MD orders, empty bedpans, apply restraints, assist pt to/from bathroom,apply splints/slings, send pt to surgery/cath lab or transfer to other facility....nurses in our ER do it all!!!! I'm sure there is many more things we do!!

Good luck with your report.

KKERN, you are sooo right about doing it all. Your list covered most things I can think of. We do a lot of social work, too. Elizabeth, PALS stands for Pediatric Advanced Life Support--teaches all ER caretakers (prehospital EMTParamedics. nurses, docs) about life threatening emergencies in the pediatric patient and how to treat them, TNCC is Trauma Nurse Core Curriculum--teaches nurses to care for life threatening trauma patients, ACLS is Advanced Cardiac Life Support--teaches about life threatening arrythmias (abnormal heart rythms), heart attacks, stroke and cardiac arrest and ENCP is Emergency Nursing Care of Pediatrics--basically the same as PALS only specifically geared to nursing. Hope this helps. Good luck.

ER nurses are also part of the code team. The ER I worked in had 2 code teams primary and back up....the primary ER code team responds to a code called on any of the units or in the ER the back up is ready in case of a second code..the only unit that coded their own patients was the ICU in our hospital.

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