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Improving Care for Patients with a Non-English Language Preference (NELP)

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12 How do we address these disparities in the emergency department? Train your staff on best practices for using phone interpreters. An implementation science approach improves language access in the emergency department. April 2019. Department of Health and Human Services. 45:446-458.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

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Thousands of children and adolescents spend days at time in Emergency Departments waiting for definitive mental health disposition. West J Emerg Med. 2019 Jul 22;20(5):690-695. Mental Health Revisits at US Pediatric Emergency Departments. Children’s Mental Health Emergency Department Visits: 2007-2016.

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Best Practices for Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage

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2019:94(4):697-703. Am J Emerg Med. 2019:37(2):277-280. The emergency medicine evaluation and management of the patient with cirrhosis. Nasogastric aspiration and lavage in emergency department patients with hematochezia or melena without hematemesis. Acad Emerg Med. Mayo Clin Proc. Long B, Koyfman A.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 3: Pharmacologic management of agitated children

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Best Practices for Evaluation and Treatment of Agitated Children and Adolescents (BETA) in the Emergency Department: Consensus Statement of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry. West J Emerg Med. 2019 Mar;20(2):409-418. Epub 2019 Feb 19. Erratum in: West J Emerg Med.

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A Safety Solution for Emergency Department Staff and Patients

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Physicians, nurses, and staff in emergency departments (EDs) across the country have encountered workplace violence for years. 1,2 In a 2018 study by ACEP, nearly half of emergency physicians polled reported a physical assault while at work. J Emerg Nurs. 2019;(6):297-302. Lee H, Yun H, Choi M, Kim H. J Nurs Admin.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

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Most children who present to Pediatric Emergency Departments these days with mental health concerns – including agitation – have a known psychiatric problem or diagnosis. Diagnostic yield of head CT in pediatric emergency department patients with acute psychosis or hallucinations. Pediatr Radiol 2019; 49:240.

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The Pause- a recognition of a life

Don't Forget the Bubbles

In most Emergency Departments, staff are allotted little of that scarce resource, time, to begin processing what has just occurred. The Pause Jonathon Bartels worked as an Emergency Nurse in America in 2009. After the death of a young person in the Emergency Department, he initiated ‘ The Pause.’ & Liska, H.