extremebean

do your time in the ICU. what's not to lose? with the current trend toward "holding" in the ED..........this is invaluable experience. do it. you'll have a broader knowledge base......... do it!! L.

was just thinking about this on the way home, but from a different angle...........for some reason tonight we had so many kids in the ED who's parents had bought them in: "fix my kid, make them feel better, ect,".............but then they are refusing treatments right and left........."oh, no not an x-ray,,,,,,you're not putting a needle i my kid". give them rationales till i'm blue in the face, but they are denying these kids treatment still.........like susanmary mentioned, with adults they own their behavior, but these kids don't get to decide. i have trouble understanding what they thought we'd do in the ED. were we just going to stare at the child and come up with some magic dx and wonder med that is pleasant to administer and tastes like sweets??