ER Wishlist Items!

[HappyKYRN]

Our director in my ER has sent out an email asking us if we could choose any one item, regardless of cost for our ER, what would it be? She mentioned vein lights as a example.

I honestly dont know what to ask for. I'm drawing a blank.

Is is there some really handy item you're grateful to have in your ER? Tell me about it! Any suggestions appreciated!

[Catch22Personified]

ativan mist to disperse in the waiting room!!

Go the next best thing, Valium Gas in the ambulance bays and psych holding areas. It worked in Moscow, though a bit too effectively.

[RAWells61]

I agree with this. Instead start a program to train RN's and EDT's to utilize ultrasound to start IV's. It is common practice in many ED's.

[emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

That the floors were staffed so we could send pts to the empty rooms.

[Nalon1 RN/EMT-P, BSN, RN]

That the floors were staffed so we could send pts to the empty rooms.

I wish we had empty rooms.

[abundantjoy07, RN]

I would ask for more staff. Period. Allocate more money for more staff. That's all I want. Forget equipment, forget new machines, forget renovations...just give us more staff. Period.

[Jasel, BSN, RN]

We have alteplase that we can mix in a couple of minutes. We're supposed to mix it if we think we might have to use it on a patient and if we wind up not using it, our hospital gets reimbursed. This is much better than at the last ER I worked where you had to rely on pharmacy to mix it, send it, etc. Sometimes it would take 20 minutes or more.