14 patients to 1 nurse? I would not work in that department! That is so unsafe, for the patient and the nurse! The ratio should be 3:1 for trauma centers, trauma patients being 1:1 until stable or transferred, and 4:1 non- trauma.
He was manipulating staff. You're too busy for that. He's being non compliant, so I wouldn't feel bad to have him leave. People like that usually don't get better. Now you have time to care for the ones that really need you and want to get bette...
I'm new to the ED. I came from ICU to ED and I feel new all over again. I have to regain different assessment skills, and not try to be so in depth with the patient. My preceptor says to get in and get out. Focus on the problem they came for, we ar...
sockov replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Emergency
Curious.. If you forgot to tell the Doc. About the history of AAA, wouldn't the doc see it in the history or when they go into assess and get a history? Or is this heavily relied on the triage? I'm new to ED.
sockov replied to joyful_wanderer's topic in Emergency
I was working in Critical Care and had a patient call 911 once saying he was being held hostage. We had to talk to the police telling them that he was in ICU and wasn't being held hostage but was unstable to go home yet. We took his cell phone and p...
I highly doubt this will happen. The NP's don't want to do bedside nursing work, why they went to NP school to begin with. If they hire an NP that doesn't have nursing experience, that is a total disaster. I speak from experience. I worked with an N...