Taxi vs. 911

[susswood]

Tonight, in our ER, a man came in with a gunshot wound to the arm via taxi and a three year old came in via ambulance (his parents called 911) because he put a dime in his nose.

Silly, I know.

Just thought I would share.

[TraumaNurseRN]

It does amaze me how a pulmonary edema will actually WALK into triage, yet a girl with a sprained knee will arrive in an ambulance with sirens blaring and lights flashing. Or a pregnant DKA will sit quietly in the waiting room and never open her mouth when a mother whose baby vomited x 1 YESTERDAY will not leave you alone. Its too bad that our sign in sheet doesn't include a chief complaint section because the way our triage is set up, unfortunately you cannot see the pts in the waiting room. I think the sign in sheet used to have chief complaint but they took it away because of HIPPA.

The ignorant system abusers always, always, always get sent out to triage, and wait wait wait.......love it!!!!

[ZippyGBR, BSN, RN]

what are pick ups?

a ute mate !