Skills in the We

[tknrn]

I am the ER Supervisor in a rural hospital. The only certification required to work in the ER is ACLS. I feel that the nursing staff should be expected to show competency in emergency situations prior to working the ER. Any feedback about what competencies the nurses should be expected to demonstrate would be most helpful.:)

[tknrn]

Thanks for all of your input. It has been very informative.:) I hope to put together a list of skills that can be evaluated and checked off on fot the ER staff.

[suzanne4, RN]

Would definitely recommend that all of your nursing staff also get their PALS

certification. Unfortunately, that comes in all to handy.

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

Need that whole vegetable soup of initials

ACLS

TNCC

PALS

NALS

ENPC

CEN

enjoy the wonderfull world of nursing

[2ndCareerRN]

One set of initials that I feel is also needed....NRP...very few ER's deal with OB, but if you have a precip go bad in the ER you will alway praise the day you decided to do NRP.

bob

[teeituptom, BSN, RN]

we are fortunate

L and D one floor up above us

I did catch a precip outside the Ambulance Bay in the front seat of a shiny new mercedes 560 still had the dealer tags and invoice on the window. Nice hand tooled leather seats, beautifull.

Delivered in the passenger seat a nice healthy baby. blood and amniotic fluid all over that part of the car. Also the placenta popped out and fell on the floor board.

What a mess

Moral of the story

No matter how good a friend she is

be a nicer friend and call an ambulance to take her

then they get to clean up afterwards