instanthuman

several times in the past month, we have had inpatients that have become critical moved to a monitored bed in the ER due to lack of beds/nurses in the ICU or stepdown areas. in reading up on EMTALA, it doesn't seem that the hospital has violated tha...

in my short time in the ER (just under 4 mos), i've had a load of pt.s come in that need a brain transplant (obviously), but the funniest was when medcom called in "we're bringing a 51 yo male in with chief complaint of "feeling weird". " we all lau...

thanks again for all of your replies. i really appreciate all of the information and opinions/experiences. what a great forum!

thanks so much! that was a very good and thought provoking answer...i will definitely research those leads.

blown out eyeballs and displaced long bone fractures get me a little bit queasy. not bad though. in nursing school i passed out in the OR observing a open prostatectomy, not because i was grossed out, but it was the first time i'd spent that long i...

i recently transferred to the ER from another critical care unit in my hospital and asked one of the veteran nurses how many patients we see in our ER a year. he said, "they say we see 40000 patients, but actually we see 40 patients a thousand times...