vanurse2b

Please help!!! I recieved a patient about an hour before my shift ended (about 5:15am). In report I was told that she had been admitted for shortness of breath but there weren't any beds available so she had been on hold in the ED since 5pm the pre...

No i didn't contact the physician because in the ED we have standing orders for albuterol HHN treatments for wheezing. She is a known COPD so I believed her saturations only decreased because her nasal canula had come off. Once i reapplied the nasa...