cdufer13

I work at a Level 1 Pediatric (stand alone-no adults) Trauma Emergency Room. We're still a baby (no pun intended) in our program, it's 2.5 years old, and we're constantly striving to improve. I am wondering what nurses from outside the ER respond to a Level 1 trauma, a Level 2 trauma and resuscitations in the ER. For example, does a med/surg RN come down to record? Does a PICU nurse come to the unit to help? Do transport/resource/fly/circulating RN's respond? If you do respond and you're not from the ER, what is your role during that response time? Do you help with the pt at hand, or do you help the unit out while the trauma resuscitation is happening? If your hospital has any evidence based research for your practice, or where you adopted that practice from, please share! It would be greatly appreciated!