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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. One of the most important steps to take is redundant documentation: identity; money, credit, finances, ownership, documents. Was the car actually packed for evacuation?

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

As Advanced Practice Nursing grew, at first in family practice, then into other specialties, emergency care became an area of interest. A natural one, and especially suited for increasing capability without regard to physician residency program output of graduates, and in less-well-served rural areas. EDNA->ENA. 10/20/2013.

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Early Modern Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Although told several times, the story of the development by Henning Ruben of the prototypical modern manual resuscitator, the self-refilling bag with unidirectional non-rebreathing valves which now dominate the world of resuscitation, is still not well-known. Documents improvements in BVMs previously investigated and found deficient in FIO2.

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Ballistic Follies

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

It is critically important to document the physical findings in a plain-seeing, plain-speaking, non-judgmental manner that will not color or taint future investigations. Accurate time entries are important to document. If you think your patient is the perpetrator, he may well be an innocent, or even an off-duty or undercover officer.

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"The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial." [Hamlet]

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

All efforts to identify the decedent by hospital staff, law enforcement agencies or social service agencies should be well documented in the medical records. After the death is reported, the Coroner will attempt to identify the decedent. Do not place the name "John/Jane Doe" on the signed death certificate. ·

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Oxygen Powered Resuscitators

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

It was extremely well-liked by field personnel, but virtually unknown in hospitals. However, they could be used easily and well with the assist of head-straps which were never sold as part of the complete “kit” but only as an uncataloged “spare part.” Accessed July 28, 2014 **Quoting original documents of fascinating history.

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The Emergency Department Admitting Team: A Crisis Response to an Unprecedented Surge of Critically Ill Patients During COVID-19

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Emergency nursing, technician, and clerical staffing was unchanged compared to usual staffing for the zone, with far higher patient:nurse ratios than allowable in a proper ICU, as all other critical care resources were engaged on the units and were not available to assist in the direct care of these patients.