sacrifical lamb=triage nurse

Specialties Emergency

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Another death in the ER waiting room. The article doesn't explain the situation very well, but it seems to me that the hospital is telling the reporter, Look! We DID do something! See? We placed the NURSE on administrative leave!

Now I know I may be seeing something that isn't there, but this is how it appears to me. Give us more to do with less, and when something goes wrong because of it, well, blame us!

GRRRR

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kingharbor16may16,1,2218046.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Specializes in Emergency.

Firing the triage nurse its and always will be the chicken sh-- way out. Its going to take some heat off but i'm sorry but its not going to fix the problem.

Its a system problem and until the whole system gets fixed its not going to change.

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Specializes in 6 years of ER fun, med/surg, blah, blah.
Too bad the ED only receives attention when a tragedy happens. And no mention of the thousands of lives they've saved and the conditions they put up with on a daily basis, with few resources and support. There are too many pts who cry wolf for attention, making it hard to break through the clutter and identify the pts who really immediate help. This article is extremely slanted, making it sound like the ED employees don't care. Highly doubtful. I'd like to see the average public deal with the working conditions of an inner-city ED just for a few hours, let alone a whole shift. They just don't get it.

It's the system - not the people. And no one seems to want to support improving the system - just blame those who are in the trenches with no reserves.

Whenever my patients ask me about a nurse they read about in the news that either was accused of killing or hurting patients, I tell them that that's just one person in the thousands of nurses working hard to care for their patients, often working overtime & no one ever talks about that part!!:yeahthat:

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