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1. Question: Do ER nurses do more things independently?

   nocturne716 posted a topic in Emergency

   For example, you dont delegate things like VS checks, neurovascular, neurologic checks go LPNs/CNAs/PCTs as per your protocol guidelines or ENA guidelines. It seems that some ER nurses are allowed...

2. Identifying main medical problem...

   nocturne716 replied to nocturne716's topic in Emergency

   Going off on a tangent: When you see a patient go comatose (GCS falls to a 5) like that, what should you do? I'm already assuming that ABCD has already been assessed as an inital assessment when the...

3. Identifying main medical problem...

   nocturne716 replied to nocturne716's topic in Emergency

   he had ipsilateral pupil dilatation...no info specifically on his babinski report, but i'm assuming because of the GCS Score of 5 (no eye opening, no verbal response, decorticate movement ot pain)...

4. Identifying main medical problem...

   nocturne716 posted a topic in Emergency

   Question: A person comes in to the ER because he had falled from a ladder and hit his head on a rock...in the ER, he speaks incoherently and drifts off to sleep (GCS score from 15 falls down to a 5...

5. RN Functions

   nocturne716 posted a topic in Emergency

   In the ER, do the RNs have more independent functions that they normally wouldn't have on other floors? (ie what you would normally need a signature

6. Assessing CVP

   nocturne716 replied to nocturne716's topic in General Students

   Is CVP also a case in which you would measure Jugular Vein

7. How far of a deviation in vital signs is not WNL? ie.

   nocturne716 replied to nocturne716's topic in General Students

   thanks for the

8. "PUP Score" abbreviation

   nocturne716 posted a topic in General Students

   What is the abbreviation 'PUP Score' defined as, it should be under respiratory? I can't find it in my Lab Diagnostic book, the closest thing is "PAP" which is Prostatic acid phosphatase.

9. How far of a deviation in vital signs is not WNL? ie.

   nocturne716 posted a topic in General Students

   Ie. WNL RR is 15-20....so then 28 is not WNL? Is there a specific range that you can't go over or is 15-20 set in

10. Assessing CVP

    nocturne716 posted a topic in General Students

    Looking up this diuretic/antihypertensive drug and it says to assess improvement in CVP, how is that measured quantitatively?