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Under EMTALA, we're required to Triage, Provide a Medical Screening Examination and Stablize. Once a patient is deemed medically stable, we have fulfilled our EMTALA requirement. Although I know that doesn't end our obligation. What if after the Medi...

:banghead:It's frustrating when during Triage, a 23 year old will arrive with his mommy, and she won't let him answer questions. For example, Me to the patient: "Can you rate your Sore Throat Pain on a zero to ten scale?" Mommy: "Oh it's more than te...

Thanks Morte.

Our Administration recently reprimanded several ER Doctors and Nurses. The reason- several patients with very very minor problems (ie: Very minor Contusions, Acute Rhinitis, Bumped Acrylic Fingernail, Superficial Paper Cut) had requested "Strong Pain...

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That the EMTALA law has both Helped and Hurt people, and that parts of it need better clarification in order to prevent much of the abuse of the Emergency Medical System.

:eek:What a SCARY situation.

Right. Exactly my point. I'm so glad there are others who have the same observation. It does seem like it would be extremely difficult to stand up for the ideal principles all of the time. My fear is that given the current Legal Environment, we a...

Hahaha. What a dirty old man!

A male patient asked me to put the Pulse Oximetry Probe on his Penis....so sick and wrong!

Male patient, born male, insisting that he was pregnant....and the doctor DID order a Urine Pregnancy Test because the patient insisted on it.

True....antibiotics for simple URI are detrimental, the doctors always explain this, but with patients' insistence, will write for antibiotics anyway. And most if not all of us Nurses will give it to the patients anyway as well. Sometimes I feel a ...

You missed the whole point entirely. You are on a whole other tangent.

Yes exactly my concern. Thanks.

I was assessing a supine patient in the ER. The gurneys are such that the patient's eye level just happens to be at our crotch level. My patient said, "do you know that your pants are unzipped?" I looked down, sure enough.:imbar And I happened to...

All of these complaints would receive very very liberal IV Opiates, then a prescription to go. The typical Opiate order would be an initial moderate dose of say, Morphine 6mg IV or Fentanyl 50mcg IV, then titrate every 5 minutes as requested by pati...

Really, really great advice. Thank you!

Runny nose for 15 minutes with no other symptoms is not a medical emergency. No, you may not be Triaged first, ahead of the Cardiac Chest Pain nor the Acute Asthma patient, just because you verbally abuse the Registrars. Chronic Temper Tantrums, wors...

The ER Lead MD and Nursing Manager of our Department stated that we- MDs and RNs- are to give pain medicines in this way. The subject was reinforced at the last Department Meeting.

Thank you all for your replies. Yes, this is for real. I and a doctor have brought this up recently, and basically were put in our places. What really concerns me too is all of your surprised responses...it raises red flags that what we do at our fa...