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...
: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...
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,...
ernoc333 replied to shoegalRN's topic in Emergency
Welcome to Nursing and Being Accountable. As a Nurse you aren't only Professionally Accountable for your Practice, but also accountable to the Conditions of your Workplace, the Behavior of your...
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
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...
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...
ernoc333 replied to Jessiedog's topic in Nursing Humor
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...
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,...
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
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...