Maryland ER - Bayview and Franklin Square

pinksugar · Jun 21, 2007

Franklin Square's ED is the busiest (or 2nd busiest - can't remember) in Maryland. They see about 300 pts per day.

Sorry, don't know anything about Bayview's ED.

platon20 · Jun 22, 2007

Hopkins Bayview ED is run by PAs... so unless you like taking orders from them I would avoid it.

They have 1 major trauma/critical care room with 5 beds that is run by the MD resident, but the other 25 beds or so are run totally by PAs.

Bayview gets a lot of burn patients, they have a burn center attached to their hospital. Most of the major penetrating trauma (i.e. the gun and knife club) goes to the main Hopkins ED about 2 miles away, and hte major blunt trauma (i.e. car wrecks, helicopter evacs from the whole state) goes to Univ Maryland Shock Trauma Center in downtown.

Franklin Square is a very low volume, low acuity ED. They are out in the White Marsh suburbs east of Baltimore. Go there if you want a very low key kind of shift.

pmednurse, RN · Jun 22, 2007

Hopkins Bayview ED is run by PAs... so unless you like taking orders from them I would avoid it.
They have 1 major trauma/critical care room with 5 beds that is run by the MD resident, but the other 25 beds or so are run totally by PAs.
Bayview gets a lot of burn patients, they have a burn center attached to their hospital. Most of the major penetrating trauma (i.e. the gun and knife club) goes to the main Hopkins ED about 2 miles away, and hte major blunt trauma (i.e. car wrecks, helicopter evacs from the whole state) goes to Univ Maryland Shock Trauma Center in downtown.
Franklin Square is a very low volume, low acuity ED. They are out in the White Marsh suburbs east of Baltimore. Go there if you want a very low key kind of shift.

I agree with your assessment of Bayview, but I thought Franklin Square was one of the busiest ERs in the state. I can't speak for the acuity....

Have you worked in either one?

hollysunshine · Jun 24, 2007

Platon20 is very wrong about Franklin Square. The ED sees between 350 and 400 patients per day. I would definitely not recommend it for a new grad. Other ED's in the vicinity see approx 160 to 200 per day. Franklin Square ED practices team nursing, so depending upon your team members, you could have up to 6 patients. Worked up patients are often pulled to the hallway which is getting to be the norm for all ED's. I work agency in many Baltimore ED's and with the exception of trauma centers, Franklin Square if by far the busiest.