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"To every thing there is a season. "

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Consider the traumas and medical emergencies that have a seasonal prominence in your locality, then prepare topical presentations in formats that work well with your group. As with a well-run ‘mega-code’, these are rehearsals for future events that may present suddenly. Readers must verify validity to their own practice.

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The Nexus of Violence, Law Enforcement, and Nursing

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The agencies involved in these episodes owe a great deal of internal work as well as apologies. " Attorney: Delnor nurse was tortured, raped during hostage situation." Updated: 5/25/2017 4:52 PM. " Nurse Arrested After Protecting Patient From Blood Draw." September 01, 2017. YouTube. "Storyful

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Annals of B Pod: Social EM Corner- Suicide Related Behaviors

Taming the SRU

Suicide-related behavior (SRB) accounts for 1% of all Emergency Department (ED) visits; additionally, greater than 8% of patients visiting emergency departments are likely experiencing suicidal ideation at the time of the encounter.[3-5] Emergency Department Visits Related to Suicidal Ideation or Suicide Attempt, 2008-2017.

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Preparing for what Nature can dish out

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Medical emergency personnel prepare well for their work: preplanning, checking equipment, reserve supplies, drills to varied scenarios. Do you have copies of school and team physicals, and immunization records, as well as a short-term supply of medications and prescriptions, optical prescriptions?

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Time, the subtle thief of youth

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

" Having a " Take Your Daughter To Work Day " conveys little, and necessarily is as sanitized beyond recognition as the silly 'medical' and 'emergency' dramas on television. Tears welled up while doing so as I thought of my own toddlers. My own career includes both prehospital and in-hospital care.

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ED Boarding

ACEP Now

For example, EMS personnel, certified nursing assistants, and medical assistants could reduce the nursing work burden for tasks such as drawing blood, hanging simple fluids, placing IVs, and other tasks. Similarly, nurses could lead their own teams with these new roles. Am J Med Qual. 2018;33(3):229-236. Janke AT, et al.

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Breaking the Sound Barrier (to Action)

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

We would rather hear the happy and efficient hum of a department that is running well, for the moment, and patients are doing OK, and are satisfied. The sound of crashing stainless steel or enamel bedpans and urinals is generally obsolete, having been replaced by plastic. There goes the chance to test for a startle reflex!